-mailto(rsync-bugs@samba.anu.edu.au)
-manpage(rsyncd.conf)(5)(13 May 1998)()()
+mailto(rsync-bugs@samba.org)
+manpage(rsyncd.conf)(5)(25 Nov 1998)()()
manpagename(rsyncd.conf)(configuration file for rsync server)
manpagesynopsis()
The rsync daemon is launched by specifying the --daemon option to
rsync. The daemon must run with root privileges.
-You can launch it either via inetd or as a standalone daemon. If run
+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
startup script.
equivalent file. See also the note about security for the exclude
option above.
+dit(bf(include)) The "include" option allows you to specify a space
+separated list of patterns which rsync should not exclude. This is
+equivalent to the client specifying these patterns with the --include
+option. This is useful as it allows you to build up quite complex
+exclude/include rules.
+
+See the section of exclude patterns for information on the syntax of
+this option.
+
+dit(bf(include from)) The "include from" option specifies a filename
+on the server that contains include patterns, one per line. This is
+equivalent to the client specifying the --include-from option with a
+equivalent file.
+
dit(bf(auth users)) The "auth users" option specifies a comma
and space separated list of usernames that will be allowed to connect
to this module. The usernames do not need to exist on the local
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 customise the log formats look at
+used by ftp daemons. If you want to customize the log formats look at
the log format option.
dit(bf(log format)) The "log format" option allows you to specify the
The default log format is "%o %h [%a] %m (%u) %f %l"
-A perl script called rsyncstats to summarise this format is included
+A perl script called rsyncstats to summarize this format is included
in the rsync source code distribution.
dit(bf(timeout)) The "timeout" option allows you to override the
-clients choice for IO timoeut for this module. Using this option you
+clients choice for IO timeout for this module. Using this option you
can ensure that rsync won't wait on a dead client forever. The timeout
is specified in seconds. A value of zero means no timeout and is the
default. A good choice for anonymous rsync servers may be 600 (giving
a 10 minute timeout).
+dit(bf(refuse options)) The "refuse options" option allows you to
+specify a space separated list of rsync command line options that will
+be refused by your rsync server. The full names of the options must be
+used (i.e., you must use "checksum" not "c" to disable checksumming).
+When an option is refused, the server prints an error message and exits.
+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.
+
+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
+is usually good to not try to compress files that won't compress well,
+such as already compressed files.
+
+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)
+
enddit()
manpagesection(AUTHENTICATION STRENGTH)
The authentication protocol used in rsync is a 128 bit MD4 based
challenge response system. Although I believe that no one has ever
demonstrated a brute-force break of this sort of system you should
-realise that this is not a "military strength" authentication system.
+realize that this is not a "military strength" authentication system.
It should be good enough for most purposes but if you want really top
quality security then I recommend that you run rsync over ssh.
failed. The error will have been logged by syslog on the server.
Please report bugs! The rsync bug tracking system is online at
-url(http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/)(http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/)
+url(http://rsync.samba.org/)(http://rsync.samba.org/)
manpagesection(VERSION)
This man page is current for version 2.0 of rsync
COPYING for details.
The primary ftp site for rsync is
-url(ftp://samba.anu.edu.au/pub/rsync)(ftp://samba.anu.edu.au/pub/rsync).
+url(ftp://rsync.samba.org/pub/rsync)(ftp://rsync.samba.org/pub/rsync).
A WEB site is available at
-url(http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/)(http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/)
+url(http://rsync.samba.org/)(http://rsync.samba.org/)
We would be delighted to hear from you if you like this program.
manpageauthor()
rsync was written by Andrew Tridgell and Paul Mackerras. They may be
-contacted via email at tridge@samba.anu.edu.au and
+contacted via email at tridge@samba.org and
Paul.Mackerras@cs.anu.edu.au