On Tue, 8 Sep 2015 10:25:33 -0700 (PDT)
Mark Milhollan wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Sep 2015, Carl E. Hartung wrote:
> >On Mon, 7 Sep 2015 13:05:59 -0400
> >Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>
> >> rsync -ah --stats --delete -e "ssh -p613 -l root"
> >> 192.168.192.2:/etc/name* /home/rgm/data/htt/httnet/homebase/new/etc
>
> >Why '-e' (specify remote shell to use)? Are these systems running
> >disparate operating systems?
>
> -e specifies the *local* transport command to use
What?! Straight from the documentation:
" -e, --rsh=COMMAND specify the remote shell to use"
> , and in this case it also specifies the remote port (613) and user
> (root). Granted one should probably use their ssh configuration to
> do that but it isn't realy "wrong" (to be questioned) to do it via
> options.
I didn't explicitly state that it was "wrong," just implied (correctly)
that it was unnecessary.
>
>
> /mark
regards,
Carl