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@@ -254,6 +254,7 @@ Options
      --port=PORT             specify alternate rsyncd port number
      --stats                 give some file transfer stats
      --progress              show progress during transfer
+     --log-format=FORMAT     log file transfers using specified format
  -h, --help                  show this help screen
 )
 
@@ -402,9 +403,11 @@ Still, it is probably easy to get burnt with this option.  The moral
 of the story is to use the -n option until you get used to the
 behavior of --delete.
 
-NOTE: It also may delete files on the destination if the sending side
-can't open them or stat them. This is a bug that hopefully will be
-fixed in a future release.
+If the sending side detects any IO errors then the deletion of any
+files at the destination will be automatically disabled. This is to
+prevent temporary filesystem failures (such as NFS errors) on the
+sending side causing a massive deletion of files on the
+destination. 
 
 dit(bf(--force)) This options tells rsync to delete directories even if
 they are not empty.  This applies to both the --delete option and to
@@ -549,6 +552,11 @@ specified.
 dit(bf(--port PORT)) This specifies an alternate TCP port number to use
 rather than the default port 873. 
 
+dit(bf(--log-format=FORMAT)) Normally rsync just logs filenames as
+they are transferred. This allows you to specify exactly what gets
+logged on a per file basis. The log format is specified using the same
+format conventions as the log format option in rsyncd.conf.
+
 dit(bf(--stats)) This tells rsync to print a verbose set of statistics
 on the file transfer, allowing you to tell how effective the rsync
 algorithm is for your data. This option only works in conjunction with