X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/blobdiff_plain/d53d7795ee771a149a6ae010107bf3bf6d7588d0..38843171817eda292ad3f35de463ed2cb04689ef:/rsync.yo

diff --git a/rsync.yo b/rsync.yo
index e0d131b2..0b2ec981 100644
--- a/rsync.yo
+++ b/rsync.yo
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 mailto(rsync-bugs@samba.org)
-manpage(rsync)(1)(25 Jan 2002)()()
+manpage(rsync)(1)(26 Jan 2003)()()
 manpagename(rsync)(faster, flexible replacement for rcp)
 manpagesynopsis()
 
@@ -212,9 +212,12 @@ used to check against the rsyncd.conf on the remote host.
 
 manpagesection(RUNNING AN RSYNC SERVER)
 
-An rsync server is configured using a config file which by default is
-called /etc/rsyncd.conf. Please see the rsyncd.conf(5) man page for more
-information. 
+An rsync server is configured using a config file.  Please see the 
+rsyncd.conf(5) man page for more information.  By default the configuration
+file is called /etc/rsyncd.conf, unless rsync is running over a remote
+shell program and is not running as root; in that case, the default name
+is rsyncd.conf in the current directory on the remote computer 
+(typically $HOME).
 
 manpagesection(RUNNING AN RSYNC SERVER OVER A REMOTE SHELL PROGRAM)
 
@@ -234,10 +237,10 @@ quote(rsync --server --daemon .)
 
 NOTE: rsync's argument parsing expects the trailing ".", so make sure
 that it's there.  If you want to use a rsyncd.conf(5)-style
-configuration file other than /etc/rsyncd.conf, you can added a
---config-file option to the em(command):
+configuration file other than the default, you can added a
+--config option to the em(command):
 
-quote(rsync --server --daemon --config-file=em(file) .)
+quote(rsync --server --daemon --config=em(file) .)
 
 manpagesection(EXAMPLES)
 
@@ -282,7 +285,7 @@ verb(
  -v, --verbose               increase verbosity
  -q, --quiet                 decrease verbosity
  -c, --checksum              always checksum
- -a, --archive               archive mode
+ -a, --archive               archive mode, equivalent to -rlptgoD
  -r, --recursive             recurse into directories
  -R, --relative              use relative path names
  -b, --backup                make backups (default ~ suffix)
@@ -393,8 +396,8 @@ dit(bf(--modify-window)) When comparing two timestamps rsync treats
 the timestamps as being equal if they are within the value of
 modify_window. This is normally zero, but you may find it useful to
 set this to a larger value in some situations. In particular, when
-transferring to/from FAT filesystems which cannot represent times with
-a 1 second resolution this option is useful.
+transferring to Windows FAT filesystems which cannot represent times
+with a 1 second resolution --modify-window=1 is useful.
 
 dit(bf(-c, --checksum)) This forces the sender to checksum all files using
 a 128-bit MD4 checksum before transfer. The checksum is then
@@ -640,7 +643,7 @@ a file should be ignored.
 
 The exclude list is initialized to:
 
-quote(RCS SCCS CVS CVS.adm RCSLOG cvslog.* tags TAGS .make.state
+quote(RCS/ SCCS/ CVS/ .svn/ CVS.adm RCSLOG cvslog.* tags TAGS .make.state
 .nse_depinfo *~ #* .#* ,* *.old *.bak *.BAK *.orig *.rej .del-*
 *.a *.o *.obj *.so *.Z *.elc *.ln core)
 
@@ -727,7 +730,7 @@ bf(rsync://host/module/) syntax.
 If standard input is a socket then rsync will assume that it is being
 run via inetd, otherwise it will detach from the current terminal and
 become a background daemon.  The daemon will read the config file
-(/etc/rsyncd.conf) on each connect made by a client and respond to
+(rsyncd.conf) on each connect made by a client and respond to
 requests accordingly.  See the rsyncd.conf(5) man page for more
 details.
 
@@ -747,8 +750,10 @@ address (or hostname) to bind to. This makes virtual hosting possible
 in conjunction with the --config option.
 
 dit(bf(--config=FILE)) This specifies an alternate config file than
-the default /etc/rsyncd.conf. This is only relevant when --daemon is
-specified. 
+the default.  This is only relevant when --daemon is specified. 
+The default is /etc/rsyncd.conf unless the daemon is running over
+a remote shell program and the remote user is not root; in that case
+the default is rsyncd.conf in the current directory (typically $HOME).
 
 dit(bf(--port=PORT)) This specifies an alternate TCP port number to use
 rather than the default port 873.
@@ -1093,7 +1098,7 @@ enddit()
 
 manpagefiles()
 
-/etc/rsyncd.conf
+/etc/rsyncd.conf or rsyncd.conf
 
 manpageseealso()
 
@@ -1105,16 +1110,17 @@ manpagebugs()
 
 times are transferred as unix time_t values
 
+When transferring to FAT filesystmes rsync may resync
+unmodified files.
+See the comments on the --modify-window option.
+
 file permissions, devices etc are transferred as native numerical
 values
 
 see also the comments on the --delete option
 
-Please report bugs! The rsync bug tracking system is online at
-url(http://rsync.samba.org/rsync/)(http://rsync.samba.org/rsync/)
-
-manpagesection(VERSION)
-This man page is current for version 2.0 of rsync
+Please report bugs! See the website at
+url(http://rsync.samba.org/)(http://rsync.samba.org/)
 
 manpagesection(CREDITS)