Subject: Re: rdist + ssh
To: Frederick Bruckman <fb@enteract.com>
From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
List: current-users
Date: 01/12/2000 19:51:35
> On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Patrick Welche wrote:
>
> > Have any of you successfully used rdist + ssh by setting
> > RCMD_CMD=/usr/local/bin/ssh ? The computer running rdist successfully makes
> > an ssh connection and runs rdist -Server or whatever on the other computer,
> > but then strictly nothing happens.. Unsetting RCMD_CMD leaves a working
> > system..
Frederick Bruckman wrote:
>
> rdist doesn't now about ssh escape characters. You might have better
> luck if you set ssh up for transparent connections.
>
> In .ssh/config:
>
> Host *.blah
> EscapeChar none
>
> I use rsync, myself.
Thank you for the suggestion, but unfortunately it didn't change anything.
rsync it is!
Cheers,
Patrick