Group: comp.os.linux.networking
From: Michael Zawrotny
Date: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 8:27 AM
Subject: Re: Question about rsync

Robert Harris wrote:
> You need to run a rsync daemon on the server in any case; your choice is
> whether to have it running all the time (from startup) or to be invoked
> by inetd when an rsync client connects.

Actually, you don't have to have rsyncd running on the server if you
use ssh as the transport and the rsync binary in the user's path. My
users routinely slog tons of data across our network without me having
to setup rsync repositories for them.


Mike

--
Michael Zawrotny
Institute of Molecular Biophysics
Florida State University | email: zawrotny@sb.fsu.edu
Tallahassee, FL 32306-4380 | phone: (850) 644-0069

Safety Articles | Usenet Groups | Usenet News | Bluegrass