On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 00:03, Satish Balay wrote: > yeah - that would be my recommendation as well. And if they need to be > copied back and forth use - 'rsync -e ssh' Ah -- I hadn't though of rsync. I've never used it before. Will anything in particular have to be running on the Mac (assuming I'm running the rsync command on the FC2 box)? > And it will be trivial to make sure sshd is always running on the > linux box and invoke scp/rsync commands on the Mac. sshd is already running on the FC2 box (it's currently firewalled, but that's easy to change). I *believe* (not 100% certain) that Mac OS X comes with sshd enabled by default. Best, Darren -- ===================================================================== D. D. Brierton darren@xxxxxxxxxxx www.dzr-web.com Trying is the first step towards failure (Homer Simpson) =====================================================================