comp.os.linux.networking

On 2008-03-19, Jim T. Kirk wrote:
>
> A lot of the web sites out there explaining how to do this kind of
> thing use inetd on the server to create an rsync daemon. However,
> I'm not clear what the advantage is of using an rsync daemon over
> just using rsync directly on the client machines with ssh as the
> transport.

The main advantage is hosting a public rsync repository where the
clients do not necessarily have a shell account on the server, similar
to hosting an anonymous ftp download site.

--keith


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