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<refentry>
  <refentryinfo>
    <title>lsyncd User Manual</title>
    <productname>lsyncd</productname>
    <authorgroup>
      <author>
       <firstname>Axel</firstname>
        <surname>Kittenberger</surname>
        <address>
          <email>axel.kittenberger@univie.ac.at</email>
        </address>
      </author>
    </authorgroup>
    <legalnotice>
      <para>Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
        document under the terms of the GNU General Public License,
        Version 2 or (at your option) any later version published by
        the Free Software Foundation.</para>
    </legalnotice>
  </refentryinfo>
  <refmeta>
    <refentrytitle>LSYNCD.CONF.XML</refentrytitle>
    <manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
  </refmeta>
  <refnamediv>
    <refname>lsyncd.conf.xml</refname>
    <refpurpose>xconfig file for <command>lsyncd</command></refpurpose>
  </refnamediv>

  <refsect1 id="description">
    <title>DESCRIPTION</title>
    <para><filename>lsyncd.conf.xml</filename> is used to configure the <command>lsyncd</command> daemon. </para>
	<para>Note that any command line options can overrule settings in the config file. A <command>lsyncd</command> configuration file has an XML grammar. That means tags have to be closed with a / and the such. Following explanations will be provided with an examples. </para> 
    <para>The config file must start with a <option>&lt;lsyncd&gt;</option> root node. A &quot;version&quot; parameter has to be present which specifies the lsyncd version of the config file format. Currently this is 1.</para>
	<programlisting>&lt;lsyncd version=&quot;1&quot;&gt;</programlisting>

    <refsect2 id="settings">
    <title>SETTINGS</title>
     <para>Next is optionally a <option>&lt;settings&gt;</option> node. It controls lsyncd global settings. All settings are optional.</para>
     <programlisting>  &lt;settings&gt;</programlisting>

     <para>If a <option>&lt;debug/&gt;</option> node is present all debug messages will be logged. Default is a normal verbosity.</para>
     <programlisting>    &lt;debug/&gt;</programlisting>
     
	 <para>If <option>&lt;delay/&gt;</option> specified by the "value" parameter is greater than zero, lsyncd waits this amount of seconds between an event and calling the binary. All events for a directory in this timeframe will be aggregated to one call. If delay is 0 changes will be handlet immediatly. Default is 5 seconds.</para>
     <programlisting>    &lt;delay/&gt;</programlisting>

     <para>If a <option>&lt;scarce&gt;</option> node is present only error messages will be logged. Default is a normal verbosity.</para>
     <programlisting>    &lt;scarce/&gt;</programlisting>
     
	 <para>If a <option>&lt;stubborn&gt;</option> node is present lsyncd will continue even if the startup sync fails. Default is being not stubborn.</para>
     <programlisting>    &lt;stubborn/&gt;</programlisting>

     <para>If a <option>&lt;no-daemon&gt;</option> node is present lsyncd will not detach and log to stdout/stderr. Default is to detach as daemon.</para>
     <programlisting>    &lt;no-daemon/&gt;</programlisting>

     <para>If a <option>&lt;dry-run&gt;</option> node is present lsyncd will not call any actions (rsync) for test purposes. Default is not to run dry.</para>
     <programlisting>    &lt;dry-run/&gt;</programlisting>

     <para>With an <option>&lt;exclude-from&gt;</option> entry an exclusion file can be specified with a &quot;filename&quot; parameter. This will be passed to rsync and follows rsyncs grammar for exclude files. Default is not to pass an exlude file to rsync.</para>
     <programlisting>    &lt;exclude-from filename=&quot;/etc/lsyncd.exclude&quot;/&gt;</programlisting>

     <para>With a <option>&lt;logfile&gt;</option> node to location of the logfile can be changed. Default is <filename>/var/log/lsyncd</filename>. Take care that the user which lsyncd is running with can write to this file.</para>
     <programlisting>    &lt;logfile filename=&quot;/var/log/lsyncd&quot;/&gt;</programlisting>

     <para>A <option>&lt;binary&gt;</option> node specifies the binary lsyncd will call to sync stuff. Usually you want this to be rsync. Default is <filename>/usr/bin/rsync</filename>.</para>
     <programlisting>    &lt;binary filename=&quot;/usr/bin/rsync&quot;/&gt;</programlisting>

     <para>If a <option>&lt;pidfile&gt;</option> node is present lsyncd will write its pid there. Default is not to write a pidfile.</para>
     <programlisting>    &lt;pidfile filename=&quot;/var/run/lsyncd.pid&quot;/&gt;</programlisting>

     <para>With a <option>&lt;callopts&gt;</option> node you can control the arguments lsyncd will call the &lt;binary&gt; (rsync) with. Each child node will specify one argument. &lt;option&gt; specifies a literal argument. Only %r will be replaced with 'r' when rsycnd is supposed to work recursive (on startup of lsyncd) or 'd' on normal operations. &lt;exclude-file&gt; will be replaced with <option>--exclude-from [FILE]</option> if an &lt;exclude-from&gt; file is specified. &lt;source&gt; will be replaced the source directory to sync from. &lt;destination&gt; will be replace to the target to sync to. Default arguments are <option>-lt%r --delete {--exclude-from [FILE]} [SOURCE] [DIRECTORY]</option>.</para>
<programlisting>    &lt;callopts&gt;
        &lt;option text=&quot;-lt%r&quot;/&gt;
        &lt;option text=&quot;--delete&quot;/&gt;
        &lt;exclude-file/&gt;
        &lt;source/&gt;
        &lt;destination/&gt;
    &lt;/callopts&gt;</programlisting>
     <para>End of (optional) settings section.</para>
     <programlisting>  &lt;/settings&gt;</programlisting>
   </refsect2>

    <refsect2 id="directory">
    <title>DIRECTORIES</title>
     <para>With <option>&lt;directory&gt;</option> nodes arbitrarily many sources to be watched can be specified. Within a &lt;directory&gt; entry you can again specify a <option>&lt;binary&gt;</option>, <option>&lt;exclude-from&gt;</option> or a <option>&lt;callopt&gt;</option> node which will override global settings just for this source. See SETTINGS for details on this options.</para>
	 <para> The mandatory <option>&lt;source&gt;</option> node specifies with the parameter &quot;path&quot; the directory to watch and sync. (once in a while something is mandatory. Also at least one <option>&lt;target;&gt;</option> node has to specified where to sync to. This has to be a format accepted by rsync.</para>
     <programlisting>  &lt;directory&gt;
    &lt;source path=&quot;/absolute/path/to/source&quot;/&gt;
    &lt;target path=&quot;desthost::module/&quot;/&gt;
  &lt;/directory&gt;</programlisting>
    </refsect2>
    <para>End of a <filename>lsyncd.conf.xml</filename> file.</para>
   <programlisting>&lt;/lsyncd&gt;</programlisting>
  </refsect1>
  <refsect1 id="files">
    <title>FILES</title>
    <variablelist>
      <varlistentry>
        <term><filename>/etc/lsyncd.conf.xml</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>The default location of the configuration file.</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
    </variablelist>
  </refsect1>
  <refsect1 id="see_also">
    <title>SEE ALSO</title>
    <!-- In alpabetical order. -->
    <para><citerefentry>
        <refentrytitle>lsyncd</refentrytitle>
        <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
      </citerefentry></para>
  </refsect1>
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