Commit b553a3dd authored by Wayne Davison's avatar Wayne Davison

Document the RSYNC_CONNECT_PROG environment variable.

parent e5f1a96f
......@@ -219,6 +219,21 @@ environment variable RSYNC_PROXY to a hostname:port pair pointing to
your web proxy. Note that your web proxy's configuration must support
proxy connections to port 873.
You may also establish a daemon connection using a program as a proxy by
setting the environment variable RSYNC_CONNECT_PROG to the commands you
wish to run in place of making a direct socket connection. The string may
contain the escape "%H" to represent the hostname specified in the rsync
command (so use "%%" if you need a single "%" in your string). For
example:
verb( export RSYNC_CONNECT_PROG='ssh proxyhost nc %H 873'
rsync -av targethost1::module/src/ /dest/
rsync -av rsync:://targethost2/module/src/ /dest/ )
The command specifed above uses ssh to run nc (netcat) on a proxyhost,
which forwards all data to port 873 (the rsync daemon) on the targethost
(%H).
manpagesection(USING RSYNC-DAEMON FEATURES VIA A REMOTE-SHELL CONNECTION)
It is sometimes useful to use various features of an rsync daemon (such as
......@@ -2719,7 +2734,7 @@ values
see also the comments on the bf(--delete) option
Please report bugs! See the website at
Please report bugs! See the web site at
url(http://rsync.samba.org/)(http://rsync.samba.org/)
manpagesection(VERSION)
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