The host is at secure site. Can rsync use a secure socket like ssh? I guessed that it couldn't but I'll admit I didn't look into it. -- Gary On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Charles R . Anderson wrote:
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 09:53:47AM -0400, Gary J. Hanley wrote: ghanley> Definately possible. I have to make sure the permissions on a large number ghanley> of files and directories are in sync with a remote system so I want to make ghanley> sure I can generate this list in the most efficient way.
Sounds like a job for rsync. It can synchronize files, links, devices, directories, owners, groups, and permissions. It will only transfer the "differences" over the network, making it extremely fast. These options should do what you want (but I haven't tested this):
-p, --perms This option causes rsync to update the remote permissions to be the same as the local permissions.
--existing This tells rsync not to create any new files - only update files that already exist on the destination.
I'm not sure if rsync can synchronize JUST permissions, and not file contents as well. It might be worth looking into, though. _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug@mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug