<!-- Creator : groff version 1.18.1.1 --> <!-- CreationDate: Thu Dec 1 12:02:38 2011 --> <html> <head> <meta name="generator" content="groff -Thtml, see www.gnu.org"> <meta name="Content-Style" content="text/css"> <title>SYNC_CLIENT</title> </head> <body> <h1 align=center>SYNC_CLIENT</h1> <a href="#NAME">NAME</a><br> <a href="#SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a><br> <a href="#DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a><br> <a href="#OPTIONS">OPTIONS</a><br> <a href="#FILES">FILES</a><br> <a href="#SEE ALSO">SEE ALSO</a><br> <a href="#AUTHORS">AUTHORS</a><br> <hr> <a name="NAME"></a> <h2>NAME</h2> <!-- INDENTATION --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="10%"></td> <td width="89%"> <p>sync_client − client side of the synchronization (replication) engine</p> </td> </table> <a name="SYNOPSIS"></a> <h2>SYNOPSIS</h2> <!-- INDENTATION --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="10%"></td> <td width="89%"> <p><b>sync_client</b> [ <b>−v</b> ] [ <b>−l</b> ] [ <b>−C</b> <i>config-file</i> ] [ <b>−S</b> <i>servername</i> ]<br> [ <b>−f</b> <i>input-file</i> ] [ <b>−F</b> <i>shutdown_file</i> ] [ <b>−w</b> <i>wait_interval</i> ]<br> [ <b>−t</b> <i>timeout</i> ] [ <b>−d</b> <i>delay</i> ] [ <b>−r</b> ] [ <b>−u</b> ] [ <b>−m</b> ]<br> [ <b>−s</b> ] <i>objects</i>...</p> </td> </table> <a name="DESCRIPTION"></a> <h2>DESCRIPTION</h2> <!-- INDENTATION --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="10%"></td> <td width="89%"> <p><i>Sync_client</i> is the client side of the replication system. It runs on the client (master) system and connects to the target (replica) system and generates an appropriate sequence of transactions to synchronize the replica system with the master system.</p> </td> </table> <a name="OPTIONS"></a> <h2>OPTIONS</h2> <!-- TABS --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="5" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="11%"></td> <td width="2%"> <p><b>−v</b></p> </td> <td width="13%"></td> <td width="30%"> <p>Verbose mode.</p> </td> <td width="41%"> </td> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="11%"></td> <td width="2%"> <p><b>−l</b></p> </td> <td width="13%"></td> <td width="30%"> <p>Verbose logging mode.</p> </td> <td width="41%"> </td> </table> <!-- INDENTATION --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="10%"></td> <td width="89%"> <p><b>−C</b> <i>config-file</i></p></td> </table> <!-- INDENTATION --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="21%"></td> <td width="77%"> <p>Read configuration options from <i>config-file</i>.</p> </td> </table> <!-- INDENTATION --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="10%"></td> <td width="89%"> <p><b>−S</b> <i>servername</i></p></td> </table> <!-- INDENTATION --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="21%"></td> <td width="77%"> <p>Tells <b>sync_client</b> which server to communicate with. Overrides the <i>sync_host</i> configuration option.</p> </td> </table> <!-- INDENTATION --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="10%"></td> <td width="89%"> <p><b>−f</b> <i>input-file</i></p></td> </table> <!-- INDENTATION --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="21%"></td> <td width="77%"> <p>In mailbox or user replication mode: provides list of users or mailboxes to replicate. In rolling replication mode, specifies an alternate log file (sync_client will exit after processing the log file).</p> </td> </table> <!-- INDENTATION --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="10%"></td> <td width="89%"> <p><b>−F</b> <i>shutdown-file</i></p></td> </table> <!-- INDENTATION --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="21%"></td> <td width="77%"> <p>Rolling replication checks for this file at the end of each replication cycle and shuts down if it is present. Used to request nice clean shutdown at first convenient point. The file in question is removed on shutdown. Overrides <i>sync_shutdown_file</i> option in <i>imapd.conf</i></p> </td> </table> <!-- INDENTATION --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="10%"></td> <td width="89%"> <p><b>−w</b> <i>interval</i></p></td> </table> <!-- INDENTATION --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="21%"></td> <td width="77%"> <p>Wait this long before starting. Typically used so that we can attach a debugger to one end of the replication system or the other.</p> </td> </table> <!-- INDENTATION --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="10%"></td> <td width="89%"> <p><b>−t</b> <i>timeout</i></p></td> </table> <!-- INDENTATION --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="21%"></td> <td width="77%"> <p>Timeout for single replication run in rolling replication. <b>sync_client</b> will negotiate a restart after this many seconds. Default: 600 seconds</p> </td> </table> <!-- INDENTATION --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="10%"></td> <td width="89%"> <p><b>−d</b> <i>delay</i></p></td> </table> <!-- INDENTATION --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="21%"></td> <td width="77%"> <p>Minimum delay between replication runs in rolling replication mode. Larger values provide better efficiency as transactions can be merged. Smaller values mean that the replica system is more up to date and that you don’t end up with large blocks of replication transactions as a single group. Default: 3 seconds.</p> </td> </table> <!-- TABS --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="4" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="11%"></td> <td width="4%"> <p><b>−r</b></p> </td> <td width="5%"></td> <td width="77%"> <p>Rolling (repeat) replication mode. Pick up a list of actions recorded by the <b>lmtpd(8), imapd(8), popd(8) and nntpd(8)</b> daemons from the file specified in <i>sync_log_file.</i> Repeat until <i>sync_shutdwon_file</i> appears.</p> </td> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="11%"></td> <td width="4%"> <p><b>−u</b></p> </td> <td width="5%"></td> <td width="77%"> <p>User mode. Remaining arguments are list of users who should be replicated.</p> </td> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="11%"></td> <td width="4%"> <p><b>−m</b></p> </td> <td width="5%"></td> <td width="77%"> <p>Mailbox mode. Remaining arguments are list of mailboxes which should be replicated.</p> </td> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="11%"></td> <td width="4%"> <p><b>−s</b></p> </td> <td width="5%"></td> <td width="77%"> <p>Sieve mode. Remaining arguments are list of users whose Sieve files should be replicated. Principally used for debugging purposes: not exposed to <b>sync_client(8).</b></p> </td> </table> <a name="FILES"></a> <h2>FILES</h2> <!-- INDENTATION --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="10%"></td> <td width="89%"> <p><b>/etc/imapd.conf</b></p></td> </table> <a name="SEE ALSO"></a> <h2>SEE ALSO</h2> <!-- INDENTATION --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="10%"></td> <td width="89%"> <p><b>sync_server(8)</b></p> </td> </table> <a name="AUTHORS"></a> <h2>AUTHORS</h2> <!-- INDENTATION --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="10%"></td> <td width="89%"> <p>David Carter (dpc22@cam.ac.uk), Ken Murchison (ken@oceana.com)</p> </td> </table> <hr> </body> </html>