Call logfile_close() and logfile_reopen() (tweaked function names).

[rsync/rsync.git] / NEWS

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
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--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -25,11 +25,16 @@ Changes since 2.6.4:
       processing does not get left on the screen when it is followed by a
       newline.
 
+    - When --existing skips a directory with extra verbosity, don't refer
+      to it as a "file".
+
   ENHANCEMENTS:
 
     - Added the --only-write-batch=FILE option that may be used (instead
       of --write-batch=FILE) to create a batch file without doing any
-      actual updating of the destination.
+      actual updating of the destination.  This allows you to divert all
+      the file-updating data away from a slow data link (as long as you
+      are pushing the data to the remote server when creating the batch).
 
     - Changed the outputting of "safe" filenames to use backslash-escaped
       characters rather than '?'s.  Any non-printable character is output
@@ -37,12 +42,16 @@ Changes since 2.6.4:
 
     - Improved the auth-errors that are logged by the daemon to include
       some information on why the authorization failed (wrong user,
-      password mismatch, etc.).
+      password mismatch, etc.).  (The client-visible message is unchanged.)
 
     - Improved the client's handling of an "@ERROR" from a daemon so that
       it does not complain about an unexpectedly closed socket (since we
       really did expect the socket to close).
 
+    - If the daemon can't open the log-file specified in rsyncd.conf, fall
+      back to using syslog.  This is better than a (typically) totally
+      silent failure (since a daemon is not usually run with --no-detach).
+
   INTERNAL:
 
     - Rsync now calls setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "").