Re: ftp sync tool

[Jason]

Excuse my naivity Nick but how exactly do you need shell access to 
access an ftp server?? I assume you mean only for rsync/unison 
connections right?? I ask becuase if you were doing a straight ftp 
connection, wouldn't it look just the same to the server as a graphical 
client based connection??

BTW, how does an inbound unison connection look to an ftp server. And 
technically speaking, isn't an rsync connection to an ftp server 
impossible, since the connection must be made to an rsync server?? Or is 
rsync a subset of the ftp protocol?? I was of the understanding this was 
not the case, thus no graphical ftp client supports rsync (sadly).

Cheers

Jason

Nick Rout wrote:

of course the original poster (whoever that was) may not have shell
access to the ftp server, and may not be able to run rsync/unison there.