when is the log file written ?

[Wayne Davison]

On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 02:37:43PM +0100, Jens Helweg wrote:
> I have searched the rsync pages and google but were not able to find any 
> information about when the log files are written.

Rsync outputs a log line as an event happens.  If it is using syslog,
it is up to syslog to flush each received line to disk.  If rsync is
outputting the file directly, rsync flushes the log file after every
line.

..wayne..