On Fri, 23 Aug 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | From: Dean Fujioka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Date: 22 Aug 2002 16:07:48 -1000 | Subject: [luau] rsync ports | Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | I'm setting up some synchronization at work and am being blocked by | MonMotha's firewall, as I should. I was wondering what port(s) i need to | open on the firewall to be able to rsync across it. | | I am able to use ssh as the transport, i.e. | | rsync -avvz -e ssh /copy/thisfromhere/ 10.0.0.66:/tothis/directory | | but I can't do it with rsh, i.e. without the '-e ssh'. I've tried | opening ports 514 and 1023, but still could not connect. Maybe I could | use ssh, but I'd like to script this in a cron job. Is that possible? | | TIA, | dean
Dean, You should use ssh; rsh, like telnet, is a very unsafe protocol these days. You can automate the rsync transfer with cron using ssh, look at the latest issue of linux journal; it has an article on "keychain" which is what you want. It uses as an example the exact problem you are trying to solve: ssh+cron+rsync. --Eric -- Eric Jeschke http://cs.uhh.hawaii.edu/~jeschke
