[ale] rsync

[hirsch at zapmedia.com]

Ken Nagorski writes:
 > Anyone know of a package like rsync that pulls rather than pushes? I want
 > to use it to cloan servers however it is a little hard to get an rsyn
 > server and inetd and rsh running off of two floppies, :)

rsync can either pull or push, it just depends on who initiates it.

push:
rsync localdir remotehost:remotedir

pull:
rsync remotehost:remotedir localdir

If you have rsh or ssh configured then you don't need to use inetd.

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