Has any work been done to create an option for rsync to send its logging
output to STDOUT for djb style logging? This would be a useful option for
me. --log-stdout?
Thanks
-jeremy
On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Jos Backus wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 08:54:18AM -0600, Dave Dykstra wrote:
> > Excuse me, I meant to say if stdin in IS a socket.
>
> That mode of operation is used when running from inetd or tcpserver. Not
> detaching from the parent is useful when one wants the parent (supervise in
> this case) to manage the rsync process instead.
>
> Here's a patch, based on Max Bowsher's patch. If deemed useful I will supply
> the man patch as well.
>
> Index: clientserver.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvsroot/rsync/clientserver.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.74
> diff -u -r1.74 clientserver.c
> --- clientserver.c 9 Nov 2001 06:58:39 -0000 1.74
> +++ clientserver.c 21 Nov 2001 19:26:45 -0000
> @@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
> extern int read_only;
> extern int verbose;
> extern int rsync_port;
> +extern int no_detach;
> char *auth_user;
> int sanitize_paths = 0;
>
> @@ -500,7 +501,8 @@
> return start_daemon(STDIN_FILENO);
> }
>
> - become_daemon();
> + if (!no_detach)
> + become_daemon();
>
> if (!lp_load(config_file, 1)) {
> exit_cleanup(RERR_SYNTAX);
> Index: options.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvsroot/rsync/options.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.62
> diff -u -r1.62 options.c
> --- options.c 9 Sep 2001 04:41:14 -0000 1.62
> +++ options.c 21 Nov 2001 19:26:46 -0000
> @@ -55,6 +55,7 @@
> int am_sender = 0;
> int recurse = 0;
> int am_daemon=0;
> +int no_detach = 0;
> int do_stats=0;
> int do_progress=0;
> int keep_partial=0;
> @@ -203,6 +204,7 @@
> rprintf(F," --include-from=FILE don't exclude patterns listed in FILE\n");
> rprintf(F," --version print version number\n");
> rprintf(F," --daemon run as a rsync daemon\n");
> + rprintf(F," --no-detach do not detach from the parent\n");
> rprintf(F," --address bind to the specified address\n");
> rprintf(F," --config=FILE specify alternate rsyncd.conf file\n");
> rprintf(F," --port=PORT specify alternate rsyncd port number\n");
> @@ -285,6 +287,7 @@
> /* TODO: Should this take an optional int giving the compression level? */
> {"compress", 'z', POPT_ARG_NONE, &do_compression},
> {"daemon", 0, POPT_ARG_NONE, &am_daemon},
> + {"no-detach", 0, POPT_ARG_NONE, &no_detach},
> {"stats", 0, POPT_ARG_NONE, &do_stats},
> {"progress", 0, POPT_ARG_NONE, &do_progress},
> {"partial", 0, POPT_ARG_NONE, &keep_partial},
>
>
--
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