Ok, maybe that was just personal preference overriding objectivity. Good catch. ;) I haven't used rsync a whole lot, so my opinions are more slanted to use scp. Having now actually read the man page for sync, that'll work like a champ. (assuming it's a *nix box he's connecting to)
-----Original Message----- From: Brian May [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 4:36 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Anonymous FTP >Why? >Personally, I see rsync as having one major benefit. It works over a >rsh link too. scp only supports an ssh link (AFAIK). >rsh could be a encrypted link with Kerberos authentication, for >instance. I use this kind of setup regularly. >-- >Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>