Allow --port to be used in client mode (as well as daemon mode).

[rsync/rsync.git] / rsync.yo

diff --git a/rsync.yo b/rsync.yo
index c3f0f54..6a0f6c1 100644 (file)
--- a/rsync.yo
+++ b/rsync.yo
@@ -466,15 +466,21 @@ just the last parts of the filenames. This is particularly useful when
 you want to send several different directories at the same time. For
 example, if you used the command
 
-verb(rsync foo/bar/foo.c remote:/tmp/)
+verb(rsync /foo/bar/foo.c remote:/tmp/)
 
 then this would create a file called foo.c in /tmp/ on the remote
 machine. If instead you used
 
-verb(rsync -R foo/bar/foo.c remote:/tmp/)
+verb(rsync -R /foo/bar/foo.c remote:/tmp/)
 
 then a file called /tmp/foo/bar/foo.c would be created on the remote
-machine -- the full path name is preserved.
+machine -- the full path name is preserved.  To limit the amount of
+path information that is sent, do something like this:
+
+verb(cd /foo
+rsync -R bar/foo.c remote:/tmp/)
+
+That would create /tmp/bar/foo.c on the remote machine.
 
 dit(bf(--no-relative)) Turn off the --relative option.  This is only
 needed if you want to use --files-from without its implied --relative
@@ -1046,7 +1052,8 @@ dit(bf(--address)) By default rsync will bind to the wildcard address
 when run as a daemon with the --daemon option or when connecting to a
 rsync server. The --address option allows you to specify a specific IP
 address (or hostname) to bind to. This makes virtual hosting possible
-in conjunction with the --config option.
+in conjunction with the --config option.  See also the "address" global
+option in the rsyncd.conf manpage.
 
 dit(bf(--bwlimit=KBPS)) This option allows you to specify a maximum
 transfer rate in kilobytes per second for the data the daemon sends.
@@ -1070,7 +1077,8 @@ debugger.  This option has no effect if rsync is run from inetd or
 sshd.
 
 dit(bf(--port=PORT)) This specifies an alternate TCP port number to use
-rather than the default port 873.
+rather than the default port 873.  See also the "port" global option in
+the rsyncd.conf manpage.
 
 dit(bf(-4, --ipv4) or bf(-6, --ipv6)) Tells rsync to prefer IPv4/IPv6
 when creating the incoming sockets that the rsync daemon will use to