On Feb 24, 2011 10:31 AM, "Steven Ayre" <stevea...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hmm, interesting. Didn't realise that was the case. > > -Steve > > > On 24 February 2011 15:06, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <b...@iguanasuicide.net> wrote: > > On Thursday 24 February 2011 09:00:33 Steven Ayre wrote: > >> No, it tries to talk to the rsync daemon by default, but you can run > >> it over ssh using: > > > > No, it only tries to connect to an rsync daemon if the remote "URL" uses two > > colons like host::path. Otherwise it defaults to ssh. You can, of course, > > force it to rsh if you like. > > --
IIRC, this is a recent (<2 years old) convention though and is just for gnu rsync.