On 08/03/2011 06:41 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > But back to the original problem, why would anyone use ftp in this > century when rsync or http(s) are so much easier to manage? Do we have Kerberized rsync yet? Or Globus rsync? If so... please post a link and... (^.^) Anyway, that sort of gets to the heart of just why we have several (not just two) ftp options. ftp, vsftp, Kerberized ftp, gridftp, etc... Its a pretty common tool and in some specific cases scripting the niche ones is necessary due to a lack of alternatives to match a given environment -- though if security isn't an issue (bringing in signed, public packages from a repo, say)... then yeah, rsync; though some people view it as "just one more thing to have to learn" and never discovering the benefits. -Iwao