Re: rsync on Freebsd 5.3

2006-08-18 Thread Lars Kristiansen
Lisa Casey skrev: Hi, I am trying to transfer all files in /var/mail from one Freebsd 5.3 machine (oldfreebsd.com) to another (newfreebsd.com). I decided to use rsync for this since it would preserve ownership, permissions, etc. I made sure rsync was installed on both machines. Neither machin

Re: rsync on Freebsd 5.3

2006-08-18 Thread Greg Barniskis
Lisa Casey wrote: Hi, I am trying to transfer all files in /var/mail from one Freebsd 5.3 machine (oldfreebsd.com) to another (newfreebsd.com). I decided to use rsync for this since it would preserve ownership, permissions, etc. I made sure rsync was installed on both machines. Neither machin

Re: rsync on Freebsd 5.3

2006-08-18 Thread Kevin Sanders
I've never needed to do any rsync specific configuration, just install from ports on both machines. This sounds more like a ssh configuration issue ("connect to host newfreebsd.com port 22: Connection refused") on newfreebsd.com. Or maybe you're not allowing ssh connections thru the firewall on

Re: rsync on Freebsd 5.3

2006-08-18 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Aug 18, 2006, at 10:40 AM, Lisa Casey wrote: Anyone know what might be wrong? Or can anyone suggest a better way of moving these mail boxes? I don't know what might be wrong with rsync but can't you just tar up the mail, move the tar file, and untar at the new place? Simple fast et

rsync on Freebsd 5.3

2006-08-18 Thread Lisa Casey
Hi, I am trying to transfer all files in /var/mail from one Freebsd 5.3 machine (oldfreebsd.com) to another (newfreebsd.com). I decided to use rsync for this since it would preserve ownership, permissions, etc. I made sure rsync was installed on both machines. Neither machine had an /etc/rsync