Namaste Ingo, Danke for your reply. I am sorry for the delay in my response.
> Sent: Monday, December 09, 2019 at 4:44 PM > From: "Ingo Schwarze" <schwa...@usta.de> > To: "Aham Brahmasmi" <aham.brahma...@gmx.com>, be...@openbsd.org > Cc: misc@openbsd.org > Subject: Re: Openrsync manpage - EXAMPLES and SEE ALSO > > Namaste Aham, > > Aham Brahmasmi wrote on Mon, Dec 09, 2019 at 04:55:07PM +0100: > > > On the openrsync manpage [1], > > [1] - https://man.openbsd.org/openrsync > > 1) In the EXAMPLES section, the examples use "rsync". > > ... > > % rsync -t ../src/bar ../src/baz host:dest > > ... > > The SYNOPSIS section has the invocation as "openrsync". > > > > Should we use "openrsync" in the EXAMPLES section? > > I don't think so. > > Ultimately, we hope to install OpenRSYNC as simply /usr/bin/rsync > rather than /usr/bin/openrsync, but it isn't quite ready for that > yet, too many features are still missing. > > Until then, it can't be helped that the documentation is somewhat > messy. In particular, we don't really want to force "openrsync" > too deeply into people's finger memory. Danke for the helpful overview. Given the direction, I now understand the current state better. > > 2) In the SEE ALSO section, clicking on rsync(5) and rsyncd(5) results > > in "No results found". An apropos [2] for "rsync" gives two results, one > > of which is for openrsync itself. > > Our source tree contains files rsync.5 and rsyncd.5 documenting the > protocols, but they are not installed. I think we should either > install these two files if they are accurate and considered relevant > or delete the two links from rsync(1). > > I'm not sending a diff because i don't know which course of action > is better. > > > Is there a configuration file format for rsync{d}? > > Samba rsync supports rsyncd.conf(5) but OpenRSYNC does not appear > to at this time. I was under the (now incorrect) impression that the rsync{d}.5 links were related to configuration files for rsync{d}, hence my query. I now understand that they are rsync protocol descriptions. > Yours, > Ingo Dhanyavaad, ab ---------|---------|---------|---------|---------|---------|---------|--
