[ale] [ot] Xmpp, ejabberd question

[Jim Kinney]

I stand happily  corrected!

old habits die hard. My first foray into rsync required -e ssh and I guess
I just glossed over reading that it now the default. I've never used it on
a network where ssh was NOT in use :-)

On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Brian Mathis <
brian.mathis+ale at betteradmin.com> wrote:

> As of rsync 2.6 (1 Jan 2004)
>    http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-2.6.0-NEWS
>
> The man page since then has said (under SETUP):
>    For remote transfers, a modern rsync uses ssh for its communications [1]
> and the -e section says:
>    Typically, rsync is configured to use ssh by default
>
> -e can come in handy if you want to pass other options to ssh, such as
> changing the port or encryption cipher.
>
>
> [1]
> http://sunsite.ualberta.ca/Documentation/Misc/rsync-2.6.6/rsync.1.html#lbAF
>
> ❧ Brian Mathis
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hmm. Someone needs to update the rsync man pages to reflect -e default is
> > ssh
> >
> > On Dec 27, 2011 10:12 AM, "Brian Mathis" <
> brian.mathis+ale at betteradmin.com>
> > wrote:
> >> There's no need for the -e stuff for a long time now.  Rsync uses ssh
> >> by default on all modern versions.  You get the same effect using the
> >> simpler form of:
> >>
> >>    rsync -P file.to.transfer username at remote.host:/path/store/file/
> >>
> >> ❧ Brian Mathis
> >>
> >> On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 11:44 PM, James Sumners <
> james.sumners at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> > XMPP is really not the right tool for this. Rsync is what you want:
> >> >
> >> > $ rsync -P -e "ssh -l username" file.to.transfer
> >> > remote.host:/path/store/file/
> >> >
> >> > Where "username" is the SSH user you will be using to transfer the
> file.
> >> >
> >> > On Monday, December 26, 2011, Wolf Halton <wolf.halton at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> >> What would be wrong with using xmpp as a transfer protocol for moving
> >> >> backups of tarred files? I have used scp for this purpose, but if the
> >> >> tunnel
> >> >> is broken, the file is corrupted. From what I have been reading, if a
> >> >> session drops in xmpp, it picks up where it was dropped and
> continues.
> >> >> I am
> >> >> working inside a c-class private subnet.
> >> >>
> >> >> http://sourcefreedom.com
>
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