[Yum] Re: yum mirroring

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Wed Jul 30 02:49:43 UTC 2003


On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 22:45, Tom Diehl wrote:
> On 29 Jul 2003, Aleksander Demko wrote:
> 
> > I've never used rsync, but I don't think I can use it here. Our heavily
> > DMZ'ed public http server can really only do HTTP requests, and even
> > those I back tunnel over ssh to a proxy. I think I'm restricted to
> > HTTP-pure mirroring techniques.
> 
> If you can do ssh you can usually do rsync. Just add a "-e ssh" to the 
> rsync command line. rsync is a truely wonderful program for mirroring
> stuff.

well -e ssh only works if you have an account on the machine you're
attempting to rsync to.

-sv







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