Thanks for you response, Tim. : Hehe... gotcha. --server and --sender are undocumented because they are : commands used by the initiating rsync to cause the called rsync behave as : a slave.
Essentially, the command I wish to run on the ``recipient'' machine is exactly that, a slave command. : --daemon IS documented well enough, though it's meaningless : unless you also read the (also very good) rsyncd.conf documentation. : The message you were reading was about a special application, not normal : usage. Yes, and I'm asking specifically about that special application, not normal usage, which works flawlessly for me, nor about --daemon mode, which also works as I would expect. I'm connecting to the machine via SSH. I do not wish to run a publicly accessible rsync server. I always wish to run the rsync on the destination machine in --server mode, and am concerned that as --server is undocumented that its behaviour might change or that as a an undocumented option, it may cease to function the same way in the future. Can anybody here shed any light for me on whether or not the --server option is here to stay? Thank you, -Martin : To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Subject: rsync: future of the --server option : : Hello list members, : : I notice here that the --server option is listed as undocumented. : : http://rsync.samba.org/rsync/fom-serve/cache/88.html : : My question is that the --server option is not documented, and I'd like : not to build functionality into one of my systems without trusting that it : will be there in the future. : : I was able to find the --server option simply by watching the rsync : entries in the process table when I did not use the command restrictions : for the DSA key. I, however, would very much like to use belt and : suspenders: I would like to restrict access to this DSA key and also : restrict this DSA key to this individual rsync command. : : I have been able to make rsync do my bidding by calling...here's a snippet : of my .ssh/authorized_keys2 file: : : command="/usr/bin/rsync --quiet --delete --links --perms --recursive \ : --server /home/mabrown/miccawillow/" ssh-dss AAAA.... : : For now, I'm happy to continue using the version of rsync I am using : (rsync-2.4.6) as I have been very happy with it. I would like to know : what the development plan includes for the undocumented --server option : (and the --sender option, too I guess). : : Thanks for a great product. : : -Martin : : -- Martin A. Brown --- SecurePipe, Inc. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
