rsync man pages, rsync faqs, problem with RSYNC_PASSWORD and --password-file

2008-01-29 Thread Peter Halverson
Hi all, This isn't a bug, its just a lapse in the documentation. I just got a script going that repeats every 5 seconds, that uses rsync to send data from A, running Ubuntu V6.06.1, to B, running cygwin. I got stuck on the issue of preventing the password prompt from interrupting the script.

Re: rsync man pages, rsync faqs, problem with RSYNC_PASSWORD and --password-file

2008-01-29 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 09:58 -0800, Peter Halverson wrote: > The problem is that the man pages are misleading, they suggest that > RSYNC_PASSWORD and --password-file are the answer. I don't see any such suggestion in either the rsync 2.6.9 manpage or the current development one. Both make it suff