Re: rsync w/ssh

2000-11-16 Thread kmself
on Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 11:21:47AM -0700, Gary Hennigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > "Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Forgot 4) Run ssh-add at the beginning of your login session. Ok, can someone wap me with a cluestick here? What's ssh-add do? I took a quick look at the manpage

Re: rsync w/ssh

2000-11-16 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 07:08:12PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > on Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 11:21:47AM -0700, Gary Hennigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > "Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Forgot 4) Run ssh-add at the beginning of your login session. > > Ok, can someone w

Re: rsync w/ssh

2000-11-16 Thread Kelly Corbin,,,
I solved the problem. First of all one machine was running freessh, the other openssh and there were some hoops to jump through to get them to play nice together. I just setup openssh on both and it made life much simpler. To rid myself of the password prompt, I just didn't use a pass phrase

Re: rsync w/ssh

2000-11-16 Thread brian moore
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 11:21:47AM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: > "Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Why were you thinking you wouldn't be prompted for a password? In > > order to do passwordless ssh you need to do the following: > > > > 1) On your local system run ssh-keygen and use a

Re: rsync w/ssh

2000-11-16 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Why were you thinking you wouldn't be prompted for a password? In > order to do passwordless ssh you need to do the following: > > 1) On your local system run ssh-keygen and use a good passphrase when > prompted > > 2) Copy the contents of ~/.ssh/iden

Re: rsync w/ssh

2000-11-16 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Kelly Corbin,,," <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to setup a cron job to sync two servers using ssh and rsync. The > problem is I'm promted for a password; which won't work when I stick it in > cron. Here's the syntax of my command line: > > > rsync -vnaz --rsh=ssh --delete somehost