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- Added a comment about configure figuring out the default user

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and group to use in daemon mode.
- Belatedly updated the version of popt that comes with rsync.
- Updated the Mac OS X info.
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Wayne Davison
2005-12-16 16:57:26 +00:00
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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
To build and install rsync
To build and install rsync:
$ ./configure
$ make
@@ -9,8 +9,15 @@ to ./configure. To see them, use:
$ ./configure --help
Configure tries to figure out if the local system uses group "nobody" or
"nogroup" by looking in the /etc/group file. (This is only used for the
default group of an rsync daemon, which attempts to run with "nobody"
user and group permissions.) You can change the default user and group
for the daemon by editing the NOBODY_USER and NOBODY_GROUP defines in
config.h, or just override them in your /etc/rsyncd.conf file.
As of 2.4.7, rsync uses Eric Troan's popt option-parsing library. A
cut-down copy of release 1.5 is included in the rsync distribution,
cut-down copy of release 1.6.4 is included in the rsync distribution,
and will be used if there is no popt library on your build host, or if
the --with-included-popt option is passed to ./configure.
@@ -18,7 +25,6 @@ If you configure using --enable-maintainer-mode, then rsync will try
to pop up an xterm on DISPLAY=:0 if it crashes. You might find this
useful, but it should be turned off for production builds.
RPM NOTES
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@@ -37,16 +43,15 @@ fails:
Install gcc or HP's "ANSI/C Compiler".
MAC OSX NOTES
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Mac OS X (Darwin) seems to have an IPv6 stack, but it does not
completely implement the "New Sockets" API.
Some versions of Mac OS X (Darwin) seem to have an IPv6 stack, but do
not completely implement the "New Sockets" API.
<http://www.ipv6.org/impl/mac.html> says that Apple do not support
IPv6 yet. If your build fails, try again with --disable-ipv6.
<http://www.ipv6.org/impl/mac.html> says that Apple started to support
IPv6 in 10.2 (Jaguar). If your build fails, try again after running
configure with --disable-ipv6.
IBM AIX NOTES
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