From: Wayne Davison <wayned@samba.org>
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 23:06:45 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Mention how we now handle a log-file that the daemon can't open.
X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/commitdiff_plain/f97f6bcd3a87215885035d8688aecc60c420ec93

Mention how we now handle a log-file that the daemon can't open.
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index f49f189e..5a20de6f 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -46,6 +46,10 @@ Changes since 2.6.4:
       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, "").