On Saturday 17 January 2009 06:30:45 Mike Kazantsev wrote: > And since you're using gentoo you can also pass rsync traffic through > a proxy. Rsync (as well as wget and lots of other tools) will use proxy > automatically if RSYNC_PROXY (http_proxy/ftp_proxy for other apps, > lower- and uppercase) env var is set. > For squid to pass rsync traffic you'll need to specify rsync ports in > squid.conf, like this: > > acl SSL_ports port 873 # rsync > acl Safe_ports port 873 # rsync
Another way, of course, is to run rsyncd on one machine on the network, and point the other machines to it for emerge --sync. This is getting a bit off-topic, though. -- Rgds Peter