On Friday 31 March 2006 18:42, T. Horsnell wrote: > > Anne, this may be a bit late in the day, but have you looked > at the docs on the rsync homepage? > http://www.samba.org/rsync/documentation.html > There's an entry there: > > A nice tutorial on setting up ssh to avoid password prompts also covers > how you can restrict the commands allowed and setup a cron job to run > rsync. > > I've tried using the --password-file option in the past, but this > never worked. I suspect its only valid if the remote host is running > an rsyncd... > I think I've really got it this time - at least, it's run one iteration and seems to be working. The page referenced above is, like the ones I found earlier, out of date. It's talking about earlier versions that put different files in different places. For the record, I finally found one bearing the Fedora Project name, dated Oct 2005, at http://www.cri.ch/linux/docs/sk0019.html. It seems I was almost right, but not quite. Hopefully this is now fixed. Anne
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