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Re: [cobalt-users] Automating ftp
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Automating ftp
- From: "Gerald Waugh" <gerald@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed May 9 12:09:00 2001
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
> At 5/9/01 08:39 PM +0100, you wrote:
> >Since a few weeks we have a cobalt raq 4 server and i know it's possible to
> >automate some tasks, but is it possible to create a script that downloads a
> >few files from an ftp server to the raq and then upload these files to
> >another server? and if it's possible how do i do this?
>
> man rsync
>
> will give you the manual for rsync, which can do what you want and is a
> very useful tool. If not, go to ftp.redhat.com and look for the 2.4.6-1
> version of the RPM (probably rsync-2.4.6-1.i386.rpm) in the updates
> directory for 6.2.
>
Get the source, from rsync.samba.org. Compiling and install is effortless
Read the README, It works well. I use it for many things.
Gerald