As indicated in the documentation, --log-file is supposed to override
the "log file" directive in daemon mode. I'm seeing some odd
behavior
regarding this... it appears that while startup and connect information
is written to the command-line log, the transfer information is still
written to the rsyncd.conf log file. All tests are done with rsync
3.0.5, and have been tested with 2.6.6 as well.
rsyncd.conf:
log file = logs/rsyncd_conf_log_file
transfer logging = yes
[foo]
path = src
use chroot = false
Reproduced:
$ mkdir /tmp/rsync
$ cd /tmp/rsync
$ mkdir src dest logs
$ touch src/{a,b,c}
$ rsync --daemon --config=rsyncd.conf --log-file=logs/command_line_log
--port=8080
$ rsync -a --port=8080 localhost::foo/ ./dest/
$ cat logs/command_line_log
2009/02/18 13:52:08 [5698] rsyncd version 3.0.5 starting, listening on
port 8080
2009/02/18 13:52:10 [5714] connect from localhost (127.0.0.1)
$ cat logs/rsyncd_conf_log_file
2009/02/18 13:52:10 [5714] rsync on foo/ from localhost (127.0.0.1)
2009/02/18 13:52:11 [5714] building file list
2009/02/18 13:52:11 [5714] send localhost [127.0.0.1] foo () a 0
2009/02/18 13:52:11 [5714] send localhost [127.0.0.1] foo () b 0
2009/02/18 13:52:11 [5714] send localhost [127.0.0.1] foo () c 0
2009/02/18 13:52:11 [5714] sent 223 bytes received 86 bytes total size 0
Additionally, when the "log file" line is removed completely from
rsyncd.conf, I still don't get all of the information in the command
line log... it goes to syslog. Running the same commands above:
$ cat logs/command_line_log
2009/02/18 13:55:12 [6634] rsyncd version 3.0.5 starting, listening on
port 8080
2009/02/18 13:55:16 [6657] connect from localhost (127.0.0.1)
$ tail /var/log/messages
Feb 18 13:55:16 rsyncd[6657]: rsync on foo/ from localhost (127.0.0.1)
Feb 18 13:55:16 rsyncd[6657]: building file list
Feb 18 13:55:16 rsyncd[6657]: send localhost [127.0.0.1] foo () a 0
Feb 18 13:55:16 rsyncd[6657]: send localhost [127.0.0.1] foo () b 0
Feb 18 13:55:16 rsyncd[6657]: send localhost [127.0.0.1] foo () c 0
Feb 18 13:55:16 rsyncd[6657]: sent 223 bytes received 86 bytes total
size 0
Is there something I'm missing, or is there another way to get
everything to go to the log file specified on the command line?
Thanks,
-John
