From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 28 16:32:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from shiva.enmity.org (null.enmity.org [216.17.172.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4E81137B420 for ; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 16:32:11 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 15287 invoked from network); 29 Mar 2002 00:32:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chaos.enmity.org) (192.168.0.5) by 0 with SMTP; 29 Mar 2002 00:32:01 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: Superific mailer on some OS X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20020329002248.34086.qmail@web10606.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 17:32:01 -0700 (MST) From: statik@hate.cx To: John Brodzniski Subject: RE: rsync mirroring question Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG you can run rsync through ssh by adding "--rsh=/path/to/ssh" (ie. rsync --rsh=/usr/bin/ssh /path/to/files user@10.10.10.10:/where/you/want/the/files) to your rsync command. then it'll run over port 22 and have all the intrinsic benefits of using ssh. John Brodzniski forced the bits to display: > > Hello, > > I was thinking of using rsync for mirroring my IF firewall to a machine with > the same set up and my apache server to a machine with the same setup. > > I have heard that you can use ash with to send pull files via async from > another machine.&NBS; Is this wise?&NBS; I would most likely have to open up > port 873 tap on my firewall internally as I'm not sure if async can log into > the machine via ash or if it needs it's own port open. > > The mirroring would involve my firewall con fig on the firewall box.&NBS; All > apache virtual directories, user home directories and Apache con fig on the > web server. > > Has anybody been burnt by this type of setup? > > &NBS; > > -John > > > > --------------------------------- > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards ::[ RFC 2795 ]:: "Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people." -Oscar Wilde statik@hate.cx / security engineer \ "My God, it's full of stars..." PGP fingerprint: D656 01EB 79FC 9285 F110 2AB1 D8BC B3BA BEA2 E0C5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message