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 ...@@ -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( to the detailed description below for a complete description. verb(
-v, --verbose increase verbosity -v, --verbose increase verbosity
-q, --quiet suppress non-error messages -q, --quiet suppress non-error messages
--no-motd suppress daemon-mode MOTD (see caveat)
-c, --checksum skip based on checksum, not mod-time & size -c, --checksum skip based on checksum, not mod-time & size
-a, --archive archive mode; same as -rlptgoD (no -H) -a, --archive archive mode; same as -rlptgoD (no -H)
--no-OPTION turn off an implied OPTION (e.g. --no-D) --no-OPTION turn off an implied OPTION (e.g. --no-D)
...@@ -457,6 +458,13 @@ are given during the transfer, notably suppressing information messages ...@@ -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 from the remote server. This flag is useful when invoking rsync from
cron. 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 dit(bf(-I, --ignore-times)) Normally rsync will skip any files that are
already the same size and have the same modification time-stamp. already the same size and have the same modification time-stamp.
This option turns off this "quick check" behavior, causing all files to This option turns off this "quick check" behavior, causing all files to
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