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. Likewise, I set up a monthly cronjob to backup cmucl and other things I have on c-l.net. Probably been doing this ever since rsync was available. 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. Me too, as long as I don’t have to provide my c-l.net credentials. Some
On 3/10/25 5:57 PM, Carl Shapiro wrote: passwordless ssh would be fine. Or other scheme.