Mention that --del is a popt alias for --delete-during, so there's

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

diff --git a/rsyncd.conf.yo b/rsyncd.conf.yo
index 62af546..0a3a556 100644 (file)
--- a/rsyncd.conf.yo
+++ b/rsyncd.conf.yo
@@ -208,6 +208,16 @@ file transfers to and from that module should take place as when the daemon
 was run as root. This complements the "uid" option. The default is gid -2,
 which is normally the group "nobody".
 
+dit(bf(filter)) The "filter" option allows you to specify a space-separated
+list of filter rules that the server will not allow to be read or written.
+This is only superficially equivalent to the client specifying these
+patterns with the --filter option.  Only one "filter" option may be
+specified, but it may contain as many rules as you like, including
+merge-file rules.  Note that per-directory merge-file rules do not provide
+as much protection as global rules, but they can be used to make --delete
+work better when a client downloads the server's files (if the per-dir
+merge files are included in the transfer).
+
 dit(bf(exclude)) The "exclude" option allows you to specify a
 space-separated list of patterns that the server will not allow to be read
 or written.  This is only superficially equivalent to the client
@@ -401,6 +411,10 @@ To prevent all compression, you can use "dont compress = *" (see below)
 instead of "refuse options = compress" to avoid returning an error to a
 client that requests compression.
 
+Note that rsync's --del option is implemented as a popt alias, so there
+is no need (an indeed, no way) to refuse "del" by name -- just matching
+the --delete-during option (e.g. "delete*") will refuse --del as well.
+
 dit(bf(dont compress)) The "dont compress" option allows you to select
 filenames based on wildcard patterns that should not be compressed
 during transfer. Compression is expensive in terms of CPU usage so it