Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 08:18:55 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rsync as a daemon doesn't play nice with rcng Message-ID: <20061201161855.GA77647@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <20061201082756.488cf968.wmoran@potentialtech.com> References: <20061130170943.70c02bfe.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <20061130223220.GA6306@owl.midgard.homeip.net> <20061201082756.488cf968.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
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On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 08:27:56AM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: > It's odd that there's no command line switch that corresponds. I copied > the rsyncd.conf file from an older system, and didn't look at the sample > until you pointed it out. It would be nice if this could be specified > on the command line, so it could be a default option set in the rc > script. > > Perfect world vs. nearly perfect world ... Consider submitting a bug report to the rsync authors requesting it: http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/bugzilla.html I agree that pidfile specification via argv would be useful, but at the same time, rsync has (IMHO) too many command-line options. It makes for an incredibly ugly usage page, makes sifting through the rsync(1) manpage painful, and probably results in quite a mess of code in whatever parses argv. A great example is postgrey; here's our rc.conf entry, which makes me grumble every time I vi rc.conf: postgrey_flags="--pidfile=/var/run/postgrey.pid --inet=10023 -d --user=postgrey --group=postgrey --dbdir=/var/db/postgrey --delay=180 --hostname=mx01.sc1.parodius.com --whitelist-clients=/conf/ME/postfix/postgrey_whitelist_clients --whitelist-recipients=/conf/ME/postfix/postgrey_whitelist_recipients" A configuration file is really where options/tweaks for daemonised things should be kept, with the only command-line arguments supported being very basic things, such as where the configuration file is (ex. -c /foo/bar.conf). :-) -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
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