Jon Boone <ipmonger@delamancha.org> writes:
It appears the script assumes an rsync daemon listening on TCP port 873. Carl, is there some reason to not use ssh instead? Rsync can support this trivially with much improved security properties.
Thanks for the suggestion. I set this up many years ago so I cannot be absolutely certain but I suspect that I used rsync the way I did because that is the method that was documented at the time. https://web.archive.org/web/20040606094613/http://common-lisp.net/rsync.shtm... I am open to doing something different if there are viable options available. As for ssh in particular, my personal ssh credentials for c-l.net stopped working a while ago. Though, for the purpose of a cron job, a account with read-only access to project data would feel more appropriate. Kindly, Carl