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diff --git a/debian/README.Debian b/debian/README.Debian new file mode 100644 index 0000000..956902a --- /dev/null +++ b/debian/README.Debian @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +rsync for Debian +---------------- + +If you still have an init.d based system, you need to edit /etc/default/rsync +by hand to set +RSYNC_ENABLE=true +so that the init.d script will try to start the daemon. + +Note that this is not necessary for systemd-based systems; i.e. the default +in jessie! To override options for the rsync daemon on these systems, copy +/lib/systemd/system/rsync.service to /etc/systemd/system/rsync.service and +modify the copy; add required options to the ExecStart line. + +You will need an /etc/rsyncd.conf file as described by the rsyncd.conf +manpage for rsync to do anything useful as a daemon (the daemon won't +start otherwise); you can look at +/usr/share/doc/rsync/examples/rsyncd.conf as an example. |