changed an example slightly

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

diff --git a/rsyncd.conf.yo b/rsyncd.conf.yo
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--- a/rsyncd.conf.yo
+++ b/rsyncd.conf.yo
@@ -292,7 +292,19 @@ be refused by your rsync server. When an option is refused the server
 prints an error message and exits.
 
 The full names of the options must be used (ie. you must use
-"compress" not "z" to disable compression).
+"checksum" not "c" to disable checksumming).
+
+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()