diff --git a/plugins/other/rsyncd_count b/plugins/other/rsyncd_count
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+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# Plugin to monitor rsyncd.
+# based on previous work by jintxo
+#
+# Parameters understood:
+#
+# 	config   (required)
+# 	autoconf (optional)
+#
+#
+
+mktempfile () {
+mktemp -t $1
+}       
+
+RSYNCD_LOG=${logfile:-/var/log/rsyncd.log}
+LOGTAIL=${logtail:-`which logtail`}
+STATEFILE=/var/lib/munin/plugin-state/rsync-count.offset
+
+if [ "$1" = "autoconf" ]; then
+        if [ -f "${RSYNCD_LOG}" -a -n "${LOGTAIL}" -a -x "${LOGTAIL}" ] ; then
+		echo yes
+		exit 0
+	else
+		echo no
+		exit 1
+	fi
+fi
+
+if [ "$1" = "config" ]; then
+	echo 'graph_title Rsync Server Transfers'
+        echo 'graph_args --base 1000 -l 0'
+	echo 'graph_order send recv'
+	echo 'graph_category rsync'
+	echo 'graph_vlabel Rsync Server Transfers'
+	echo 'send.label Files Send'
+	echo 'recv.label Files Recv'
+	exit 0
+fi
+
+send=U
+recv=U
+
+TEMP_FILE=`mktempfile munin-rsync-count.XXXXXX`
+
+if [ -n "$TEMP_FILE" -a -f "$TEMP_FILE" ]
+then
+	$LOGTAIL ${RSYNCD_LOG} $STATEFILE | grep ".* Total .* bytes\." > ${TEMP_FILE}
+	send=`grep ' send .* bytes' ${TEMP_FILE} | wc -l`
+	recv=`grep ' recv .* bytes' ${TEMP_FILE} | wc -l`
+
+	/bin/rm -f $TEMP_FILE
+fi
+
+echo "send.value ${send}"
+echo "recv.value ${recv}"
+
+