Add some todo comments.

[rsync/rsync.git] / rsyncd.conf.yo

diff --git a/rsyncd.conf.yo b/rsyncd.conf.yo
index 14e4757..7dae2da 100644 (file)
--- a/rsyncd.conf.yo
+++ b/rsyncd.conf.yo
@@ -44,7 +44,12 @@ in string values.
 manpagesection(LAUNCHING THE RSYNC DAEMON)
 
 The rsync daemon is launched by specifying the --daemon option to
-rsync. The daemon must run with root privileges.
+rsync. 
+
+The daemon must run with root privileges if you wish to use chroot, to
+bind to a port numbered under 1024 (as is the default 873), or to set
+file ownership.  Otherwise, it must just have permission to read and
+write the appropriate data, log, and lock files.
 
 You can launch it either via inetd or as a stand-alone daemon. If run
 as a daemon then just run the command "rsync --daemon" from a suitable
@@ -223,7 +228,8 @@ limit the length of passwords that can be typed at the client end, so
 you may find that passwords longer than 8 characters don't work. 
 
 There is no default for the "secrets file" option, you must choose a name
-(such as tt(/etc/rsyncd.secrets)).
+(such as tt(/etc/rsyncd.secrets)).  The file must normally not be readable
+by "other"; see "strict modes".
 
 dit(bf(strict modes)) The "strict modes" option determines whether or not 
 the permissions on the secrets file will be checked.  If "strict modes" is
@@ -285,6 +291,11 @@ to a temporary resource shortage or other IO error. In some cases this
 test is counter productive so you can use this option to turn off this
 behaviour. 
 
+dit(bf(ignore nonreadable)) This tells the rsync server to completely
+ignore files that are not readable by the user. This is useful for
+public archives that may have some non-readable files among the
+directories, and the sysadmin doesn't want those files to be seen at all.
+
 dit(bf(transfer logging)) The "transfer logging" option enables per-file 
 logging of downloads and uploads in a format somewhat similar to that
 used by ftp daemons. If you want to customize the log formats look at
@@ -345,7 +356,7 @@ The "dont compress" option takes a space separated list of
 case-insensitive wildcard patterns. Any source filename matching one
 of the patterns will not be compressed during transfer.
 
-The default setting is verb(*.gz *.tgz *.zip *.z *.rpm *.deb)
+The default setting is verb(*.gz *.tgz *.zip *.z *.rpm *.deb *.iso *.bz2 *.tbz)
 
 enddit()