[oclug] rsync, ssh, and cron

[Derek T. Murphy (Home)]

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On Wed, 7 Apr 2004,  [JB]= Joe Burpee wrote:

 > [JB] On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 09:04:26 -0400, Derek T. Murphy (Home) wrote:

I *gotta* stop talking (typing?) before I'm really awake...

 > [JB] > su - dle -c 'rsync -t -e ssh -aqz www.foo.bar:/usr/websites/foo.bar/www
 > [JB] > /home/dle/projects/foo/
 > [JB] >
 > [JB] > This attaches a pseudo-terminal to the command. (I suspect there's
 > [JB] > something in the user's .bashrc that uses escape chars is the problem.)
 > [JB]
 > [JB] I believe rsync -t means "preserve times".  You probably want ssh -t:
 > [JB]                rsync -e "ssh -t" ...

Yep, exactly. The "-t" is SUPPOSED to belong to the ssh command...
 su - dle -c 'rsync -e ssh -t -aqz www.foo.bar:/usr/websites/foo.bar/www
  /home/dle/projects/foo/

Do I get away with claiming: Typo? Lysdexia? (Recursive dyslexia joke)
Typing too fast for the fingers? [OK, so 1 word per minute is my top
speed...]

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