Re: transfer as root

2001-04-10 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Andreas Meyer wrote: >Hi all! > >Great thing this rsync to backup my files to my backup-server! > >My secrets-file in /etc looks like this: >root:rootpassword >andreas:password > >In the bash as root I do a: >root@gamma:/home/andreas > rsync -avz -e ssh /cad alpha::ga-cad >Pas

transfer as root

2001-04-10 Thread Andreas Meyer
Hi all! Great thing this rsync to backup my files to my backup-server! My secrets-file in /etc looks like this: root:rootpassword andreas:password In the bash as root I do a: root@gamma:/home/andreas > rsync -avz -e ssh /cad alpha::ga-cad Password: When I give the rootpassword I get an error-m

Re: password prompts

2001-04-10 Thread Ian Goldberg
In article <055b01c0c11f$d32f4010$6e0b4b89@munich>, David Salisbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Thanks Ian. I was surprised the question seeded the discussion >that it did. You are "spot on" below on what I'm trying to do, and have >used >the method you describe below to basically emulate an rsh

Re: Rsync: Re: password prompts

2001-04-10 Thread Ian Goldberg
In article <005691001131455102L112*@MHS>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >chroot does nothing to hide uid 0. It makes a subdirectory appear as /, >so you can give somebody access to /publicdirectory, and to them it's >/... they can't cd out of that heirarchy to the rest of your filesystem. >No h

Re: An idea about rsync and ISO images.

2001-04-10 Thread Anthony Rumble
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > From: Anthony Rumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > On Tue, 10 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > You don't have to .. just create a hard link .. rsync will break the link > > > if the transfer completes. > > > > Umm.. Hang on.. no.. it woul

Re: An idea about rsync and ISO images.

2001-04-10 Thread sfr
From: Anthony Rumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Tue, 10 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > You don't have to .. just create a hard link .. rsync will break the link > > if the transfer completes. > > Umm.. Hang on.. no.. it would modify the same file.. and thus.. truncate > it.. if it abor

Re: An idea about rsync and ISO images.

2001-04-10 Thread Anthony Rumble
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > From: Anthony Rumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > I am oten doing something like this > > > > cp something-beta-1.iso something-beta-2.iso > > > > Then rsync --progress --partial --stats --block-size=8192 > > somewhere::blah/something-beta-2.iso

Re: An idea about rsync and ISO images.

2001-04-10 Thread sfr
From: Anthony Rumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I am oten doing something like this > > cp something-beta-1.iso something-beta-2.iso > > Then rsync --progress --partial --stats --block-size=8192 > somewhere::blah/something-beta-2.iso . > > When I want to go from beta-1 to beta-2.. and usuall

An idea about rsync and ISO images.

2001-04-10 Thread Anthony Rumble
I am oten doing something like this cp something-beta-1.iso something-beta-2.iso Then rsync --progress --partial --stats --block-size=8192 somewhere::blah/something-beta-2.iso . When I want to go from beta-1 to beta-2.. and usually.. if all goes well.. this works.. HOWEVER.. A).. I hate