Re: [gentoo-user] rsyncd problem...

2006-06-01 Thread Anthony Roy
Firstly - my apologies for the messed up titles of my replies. I hadn't been able to get posts accepted on the list from GMail (probably because I was using a different 'from' address than my gmail address). Anyway I have to use the pieces of sh** Outlook and Exchange at work, and I hadn't

[gentoo-user] rsyncd problem...

2006-05-31 Thread Anthony Roy
Hi all, I am trying to get an rsync server running on my Gentoo server box in order to run backups to the server from my other machines. I have a very simple rsyncd.conf file, (see below), and from what I can tell, I should be able to rsync some files across from a different box. The command I

Re: [gentoo-user] rsyncd problem...

2006-05-31 Thread John Jolet
On May 31, 2006, at 2:57 AM, Anthony Roy wrote: Hi all, I am trying to get an rsync server running on my Gentoo server box in order to run backups to the server from my other machines. I have a very simple rsyncd.conf file, (see below), and from what I can tell, I should be able to rsync some

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2006-05-31 Thread Anthony Roy
Hi John, unless you say otherwise, rsync uses ssh. unless you set it up to use key authentication, ssh will require a password. Ah. Makes sense. How do I tell it *not* to use ssh? As I said, I don't need it to be secure, just simple - the rsync server won't be exposed outside of the

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2006-05-31 Thread John Jolet
On May 31, 2006, at 7:07 AM, Anthony Roy wrote: Hi John, unless you say otherwise, rsync uses ssh. unless you set it up to use key authentication, ssh will require a password. Ah. Makes sense. How do I tell it *not* to use ssh? As I said, I don't need it to be secure, just simple - the

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2006-05-31 Thread Anthony Roy
I normally hate this answer, but i looked it up and it's more meat than you want to read via email. man rsync has a section on using an rsh program...basically, it's an argument to --rsh= so read the man page for rsync, it goes into a lot of detail. Sure. Also, you might consider