From 7ae64260e06648beb03ef0c920ae55384ab98802 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wayne Davison Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 23:09:35 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Mention how the daemon handles a failure to open a user-specified "log file". --- rsyncd.conf.yo | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/rsyncd.conf.yo b/rsyncd.conf.yo index 3af25226..47e47ae5 100644 --- a/rsyncd.conf.yo +++ b/rsyncd.conf.yo @@ -90,7 +90,10 @@ is no motd file. dit(bf(log file)) The "log file" option tells the rsync daemon to log messages to that file rather than using syslog. This is particularly useful on systems (such as AIX) where syslog() doesn't work for -chrooted programs. +chrooted programs. If the daemon fails to open to specified file, it +will fall back to using syslog and output an error about the failure. +(Note that a failure to open the specified log file used to be a fatal +error.) dit(bf(pid file)) The "pid file" option tells the rsync daemon to write its process ID to that file. -- 2.34.1