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