[patch] configurable RSYNCD_CONF

Einar Karttunen ekarttun at cs.helsinki.fi
Thu Feb 21 17:24:28 EST 2002


On 20.02.02 11:26 -0800(+0000), Martin Pool wrote:
> On 21 Feb 2002, Ayamura KIKUCHI <ayamura at ayamura.org> wrote:
> > I prefer configurable RSYNCD_CONF by autoconf to RSYNCD_CONF in
> > rsync.h.
> 
> Hi, Ayamura.
> 
> I support you are already aware of --config when starting the daemon.
> 
> What reason did you have for changing the compiled-in default?  I
> suppose I don't mind merging this if there is a strong reason.  If we
> do, we should probably also support the GNU standard --sysconfdir.
> 

For distributions which have different configfile layouts etc.
Currently e.g. gentoo linux is using /etc/rsync/rsyncd.conf.
This is done with sed, so a configure/makefile option would
be really nice. Does the patch update the man page too?

- Einar Karttunen




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