X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/3a64ad1fd0429575aa0236736f3fc175d9f9ef58..1e8ae5ede66ba337ba6abbb4afad2b3319c1db74:/rsyncd.conf.yo diff --git a/rsyncd.conf.yo b/rsyncd.conf.yo index 325e5dd9..12a5a32d 100644 --- a/rsyncd.conf.yo +++ b/rsyncd.conf.yo @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ manpagesection(LAUNCHING THE RSYNC DAEMON) 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. @@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ The default is no "hosts deny" option, which means all hosts can connect. 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 @@ -276,16 +276,36 @@ itemize( 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. 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 +"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() manpagesection(AUTHENTICATION STRENGTH) @@ -293,7 +313,7 @@ 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.