Hello, I'have an intermittent problem regarding transfers using rsync between debian potato servers In common with others on this list. when executing: rsync -ave remotehost:/usr dir. I get a hang part way through the transfer. This happens only on a few machines. I noticed on this list some time ago that there was a discussion about changing the behaviour of ssh to solve this, but Iam lothe to do this as it defeats the benefits of the debian package system used locally. Are there still issues with using rsync with ssh and different file types? I can repeat the behaviour with rsync 2.3.2 - 2.4.6 and ssh 1.2.3, 2.2.0 Thanks dino -- Mostly my views, there you go.