> > I believe that portage/emerge uses it, yes. > I find rsync nicer for most of my needs than FTP or scp. > > typically what I do is this, to push: > > rsync -auv file1 file2 ... user@hostname:/path/to/where/i/want/it > > or to pull: > > rsync -auv user@hostname:/path/to/something . > > It Just Works (tm). > The only subtle gotcha I've found is that > "rsync foo_directory ." does not mean the same thing as > "rsync foo_directory/ ." > ... this is explained clearly in the EXAMPLES section of the man page. > > Also I generally put this in my /etc/profile: > export RSYNC_RSH=/usr/bin/ssh Paul, Thanks. I will save this email for future reference. Cheers, Mark
