Commit 1de02c27 authored by Wayne Davison's avatar Wayne Davison

Document the --no-motd option, with a caveat on how it can also

hide the module listing.
parent 9ce7fc38
......@@ -299,6 +299,7 @@ Here is a short summary of the options available in rsync. Please refer
to the detailed description below for a complete description. verb(
-v, --verbose increase verbosity
-q, --quiet suppress non-error messages
--no-motd suppress daemon-mode MOTD (see caveat)
-c, --checksum skip based on checksum, not mod-time & size
-a, --archive archive mode; same as -rlptgoD (no -H)
--no-OPTION turn off an implied OPTION (e.g. --no-D)
......@@ -457,6 +458,13 @@ are given during the transfer, notably suppressing information messages
from the remote server. This flag is useful when invoking rsync from
cron.
dit(bf(--no-motd)) This option affects the information that is output
by the client at the start of a daemon transfer. This suppresses the
message-of-the-day (MOTD) text, but it also affects the list of modules
that the daemon sends in response to the "rsync host::" request (due to
a limitation in the rsync protocol), so omit this option if you want to
request the list of modules from the deamon.
dit(bf(-I, --ignore-times)) Normally rsync will skip any files that are
already the same size and have the same modification time-stamp.
This option turns off this "quick check" behavior, causing all files to
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