From a897af2cdeb9467e46133640c5feb0a83b57da8e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wayne Davison Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 21:48:32 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Mention a few more things. --- NEWS | 20 ++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index a5f6260b..bcde31bc 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Changes since 2.6.3: it, it now appends a trailing slash to the name instead of (only sometimes) outputting a preceding "directory " string. - - The --stats output will contain file-list time statistics if both + - The --stats output will contain file-list time-statistics if both sides are 2.6.4, or if the local side is 2.6.4 and the files are being pushed (since the stats come from the sending side). @@ -64,6 +64,11 @@ Changes since 2.6.3: if the block-size for a file was large enough (i.e. rsync might have exited with an error for large files). + - If a daemon can't open the specified log file (i.e. syslog is not + being used), die without crashing. We also try to output an error + about the failure (which will only be seen if --no-detach was + specified). + ENHANCEMENTS: - Rsync now supports popt's option aliases, which means that you can @@ -75,7 +80,8 @@ Changes since 2.6.3: default, before-the-transfer behavior of --delete). Note that the --del option is implemented as an internally-defined popt alias, so an rsync daemon that refuses "delete" (which, for safety's sake, - really matches "delete*") will still refuse all delete options. + really matches "delete*") will still refuse all delete options. The + default behavior is also explicitly selectable via --delete-before. - Added the --copy-dest option, which works like --link-dest except that it includes copies of identical files. @@ -138,6 +144,9 @@ Changes since 2.6.3: - If rsync is put into the background, any output from --progress is reduced. + - Documented the "max verbosity" setting for rsyncd.conf. (This + setting was added a couple releases ago, but left undocumented.) + SUPPORT FILES: - Added support/atomic-rsync -- a perl script that will transfer some @@ -159,6 +168,8 @@ Changes since 2.6.3: perl script. This helps to ensure that only certain rsync commands can be run by an ssh invocation. + - Improved the option descriptions in the --help text. + INTERNAL: - Added better checking of the checksum-header values that come over @@ -172,6 +183,11 @@ Changes since 2.6.3: - Got rid of the uint64 type (which we didn't need). + - Use a slightly more compatible set of core #include directives. + + - Defined int32 in a way that ensures that the build dies if we can't + find a variable with at least 32 bits. + BUILD CHANGES: - Handle an operating system that use mkdev() in place of makedev(). -- 2.34.1