(TOFU corrected.) On Thursday 24 February 2011 14:20:57 shawn wilson wrote: > On Feb 24, 2011 10:31 AM, "Steven Ayre" <steveayre@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 24 February 2011 15:06, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss@iguanasuicide.net> > > wrote: > > > On Thursday 24 February 2011 09:00:33 Steven Ayre wrote: > > >> No, it tries to talk to the rsync daemon by default, but you can run > > >> it over ssh using: > > > No, it only tries to connect to an rsync daemon if the remote "URL" > > > uses > > > two > > > colons like host::path. Otherwise it defaults to ssh. You can, of > > > course, > > > force it to rsh if you like. > > Hmm, interesting. Didn't realise that was the case. > > IIRC, this is a recent (<2 years old) convention though and is just for gnu > rsync. Hrm, this (rsync defaults to ssh) was true when I was installing Gentoo in late 2004. I don't have a lot of experience with non-GNU rsync though; rsync is not part of any standard I could find, so I simply assume it doesn't exist on the AIX and HP-UX systems that I use. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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