On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 11:01:14PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: >On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 22:39, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: >> >> Be sure and use it only behind a good firewall, in a trusted LAN. The >> whole r* (rsync, rsh, etc.) series is wildly insecure. > >Well, (according to the manpage) it uses rsh by default, but it can use >ssh as an alternative.
right. you can setup a public rsync server so people can mirror your tree easily, but if a lot of people do, it will eat up your server resources. otherwise, use '-e ssh' for syncing over insecure links, actually that's the only way I do non public rsyncs. it's a very cool tool. I typically use "rsync -avessh --delete ./here/ user@host:there/" in most cases the default "checksum blocking size" is way too small, try using "--block-size=10000 --checksum" if you're mirroring cd ISOs. // George -- GEORGE GEORGALIS, System Admin/Architect cell: 347-451-8229 Security Services, Web, Mail, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Multimedia, DB, DNS and Metrics. http://www.galis.org/george -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
