From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 2 08:14:40 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31B4537B401 for ; Fri, 2 May 2003 08:14:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns2.wananchi.com (ns2.wananchi.com [62.8.64.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3D1943F85 for ; Fri, 2 May 2003 08:14:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wash@wananchi.com) Received: from wash by ns2.wananchi.com with local (Exim 4.14 #9 (FreeBSD)) id 19BcF4-0001ea-6u for ; Fri, 02 May 2003 18:14:30 +0300 Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 18:14:30 +0300 From: ODHIAMBO Washington To: FBSD-Q Message-ID: <20030502151430.GB631@ns2.wananchi.com> Mail-Followup-To: ODHIAMBO Washington , FBSD-Q Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="82I3+IH0IqGh5yIs" Content-Disposition: inline X-Disclaimer: Any views expressed in this message,where not explicitly attributed otherwise, are mine alone!. X-Fortune: Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft ... and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor. -- Wernher von Braun X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE i386 X-Best-Window-Manager: Blackbox X-Mailer: Mutt 1.5.3i (2002-12-17) X-Designation: Systems Administrator, Wananchi Online Ltd. X-Location: Nairobi, KE, East Africa. X-Uptime: 6:03PM up 2 days, 7:28, 4 users, load averages: 0.48, 0.60, 0.60 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Subject: Reverse tar X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 15:14:40 -0000 --82I3+IH0IqGh5yIs Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I would like to ssh to host B, cd some/path, tar some/path/directory/ and o= utput the tarball locally to TARBALL.tgz I could ssh to host B, create the tarball, then ftp but I have space limita= tions on host B. Also I could ssh to host B then do tar -czf - somedir | ssh host A '(cd some/path; cat > somefilename.tgz)' but security (reverse lookup issues) prevent this. I am only glad to know how method 1 can work. I know I can workaround the r= everse lookups ;-) Thank you -Wash --=20 Odhiambo Washington "The box said 'Requires Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wananchi.com Windows 95, NT, or better,' Tel: +254 2 313985-9 +254 2 313922 so I installed FreeBSD." =20 GSM: +254 72 743223 +254 733 744121 This sig is McQ! :-) Spouse, n.: Someone who'll stand by you through all the trouble you wouldn't have had if you'd stayed single. --82I3+IH0IqGh5yIs Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+sotWn7LIsuxjem8RAp0wAJ99Y1VAkAvtk3IKnZvRsral+zLTygCgktQp uBCi0v5gzfueJvwAfg5ZfYg= =0UlC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --82I3+IH0IqGh5yIs--