On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 09:09:06PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote > On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 09:50:40AM -0400, Chris Mason wrote: > > I've been using scp to copy the files from my production web server to my > > hosting companies web server. scp works well except that there is no way to > > prevent it coping files that already are up to date, and also, it requires a > > password every time. > > Is there a better alternative? My remote server does not allow rsync, > > although they say they will in the future. > > you can use rsync over ssh, it requires nothing from the server except > a working sshd (which it obviously has) > > rsync --rsh=/usr/bin/ssh >
Not meaning to be a killjoy, but it also requires that the rsync binary be available on the remote machine. John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mdt.net.au/~john Debian Linux admin & support:technical services
