Commit 37439b36 authored by Wayne Davison's avatar Wayne Davison

Updated the docs for pre-/post-xfer exec.

parent c95ca2a2
......@@ -458,7 +458,8 @@ dit(bf(pre-xfer exec), bf(post-xfer exec)) You may specify a command to be run
before and/or after the transfer. If the bf(pre-xfer exec) command fails, the
transfer is aborted before it begins.
The following environment variables are set for both commands:
The following environment variables will be set, though some are
specific to the pre-xfer or the post-xfer environment:
quote(itemize(
it() bf(RSYNC_MODULE_NAME): The name of the module being accessed.
......@@ -466,22 +467,18 @@ quote(itemize(
it() bf(RSYNC_HOST_ADDR): The accessing host's IP address.
it() bf(RSYNC_HOST_NAME): The accessing host's name.
it() bf(RSYNC_USER_NAME): The accessing user's name (empty if no user).
))
These environment variables will also be set for the bf(post-xfer exec)
command:
quote(itemize(
it() bf(RSYNC_EXIT_STATUS): rsync's exit value. This will be 0 for a
it() bf(RSYNC_REQUEST): (pre-xfer only) The module/path info specified
by the user (note that the user can specify multiple source files,
so the request can be something like "mod/path1 mod/path2", etc.).
it() bf(RSYNC_EXIT_STATUS): (post-xfer only) rsync's exit value. This will be 0 for a
successful run, a positive value for an error that rsync returned
(e.g. 23=partial xfer), or a -1 if rsync failed to exit properly.
it() bf(RSYNC_RAW_STATUS): the raw exit value from waitpid().
it() bf(RSYNC_RAW_STATUS): (post-xfer only) the raw exit value from waitpid().
))
Even though the commands can be associated with a particular module, they
are run using the permissions of the user that started the daemon (not the
module's uid/gid setting) without any chroot restrictions (even if the
module will/has run chroot()ed).
module's uid/gid setting) without any chroot restrictions.
enddit()
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