On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 09:58:10 -0500 (CDT), mjn <mjn at umn.edu> wrote: > or is rsync the problem? > > I've got an account on a RH box running Ensim WEBppliance for linux. I am > trying to use rsync to connect to the box and backup a directory to my > local machine. The problem is that the Ensim software uses virtual > servers > and instead of a plain old username, you've got to login with > 'username at domain.org' > > So, likesay, an ssh connection must by executed like this: > > 'ssh -l username at domain.org domain.org' > > To be successful. The issue seems to be that rsync has no --user flag in > it. > > I have tried a few variations of the command -and read the documentation > over and over-and connecting like this: > > 'rsync -vr user at domain.org@domain.org:/path/to/remote /path/to/local' Tell rsync to use a different shell with -e - that shell can be ssh: rsync -azve ssh your.server.com:/home/your/code . the a is archive mode, Z is compress, v is verbose and the e tells it to use a shell other than rsh in this case ssh! > > Always yields something like: > > "domain.org at domain.org's password: " > > Anyone have any ideas? I am thinking that I need to push from the server > rather than pull from my workstation but then I would need access to the > rsync executable on the server, which I don't have... > > Any suggestions would be much appretiated. thanks! > > -- > _______________________________________________ > Mike Neuharth > ADCS Technology Specialist > http://www.umn.edu/adcs > =============================================== > E-Mail : mjn at umn.edu > Page Mail : 6126486512 at page.metrocall.com > _______________________________________________ > "What is important, it seems to me, is not so much to defend a culture > whose existence has never kept a man from going hungry, as to extract, > from what is called culture, ideas whose compelling force is identical > with that of hunger." -Antonin Artaud > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list