From: Wayne Davison Date: Wed, 13 May 2020 07:11:57 +0000 (-0700) Subject: A bit more manpage tweaking. X-Git-Tag: v3.2.0pre1~146 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3435ae9bd024814db3a643f73152a2cfc1784952;p=thirdparty%2Frsync.git A bit more manpage tweaking. --- diff --git a/rsync.yo b/rsync.yo index b1e4ec3d..474e0288 100644 --- a/rsync.yo +++ b/rsync.yo @@ -2626,15 +2626,17 @@ lot of names. (You don't need to specify the bf(--progress) option in order to use bf(--info=progress2).) Finally, you can get an instant progress report by sending rsync a signal of -either SIGINFO or SIGVTALRM On BSD systems a SIGINFO is often generated just by -typing a Ctrl+T (Linux doesn't currently support a SIGINFO signal). When the -client-side process receives one of those signals, it will output a single -progress report when the current file being transferred finishes (so it may -take a little time if a big file is being handled when the signal arrives). +either SIGINFO or SIGVTALRM. On BSD systems, a SIGINFO is generated by typing a +Ctrl+T (Linux doesn't currently support a SIGINFO signal). When the client-side +process receives one of those signals, it sets a flag to output a single +progress report which is output when the current file transfer finishes (so it +may take a little time if a big file is being handled when the signal arrives). A filename is output (if needed) followed by the --info=progress2 format of -progress info. You can send the SIGVTALRM signal to all of the rsync processes -but just the client-side process will respond. Be careful not to send that -signal to an older rsync, though, or it will die. +progress info. If you don't know which of the 3 rsync processes is the client +process, it's OK to signal all of them (since the non-client processes ignore +the signal). + +CAUTION: sending SIGVTALRM to an older rsync (pre-3.2.0) will kill it. dit(bf(--password-file=FILE)) This option allows you to provide a password for accessing an rsync daemon via a file or via standard input if bf(FILE) is