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On Wednesday 13 August 2008 17:24:57 Grant wrote: |
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> According to man rsync: |
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> "There are two different ways for rsync to contact a remote system: |
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> using a remote-shell program as the transport (such as ssh or rsh) or |
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> contacting an rsync daemon directly via TCP." |
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> I'm using remote-shell and I'm wondering what benefit the daemon has. |
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> I probably wouldn't have to enter the username/password? |
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That's the one. Imagine every gentoo user needing a shell account on |
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rsync.gentoo.org to use when they emerge --sync :-) |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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