On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 06:32:08AM -0800, Linux Geek
wrote:> i tried lots of things on my mandrake desktop. here is
> what happens & what i tried.
>
> <hypothetical names used>
>
> i renamed the slackware.8.1.iso to slackware.9.0.iso
>
> $rsync --stats -P --rsh=/usr/local/bin/ssh
> ftp.somethng.com::/pub/slackware/slackware.9.* .
Why oh why are you using splat? When or where do you expect
it to be globbed. It could be your local shell will glob it
and fail or it might be passed along to the remote rsync
server which will have no idea what it is. Try reading the
bash manpage.
>
> but rsync doesnt work & download the entire file !!
>
> please help me !!
>
> i have been trying to rsync - but everything else
> seems to fail.
>
> ps : if i dont include --rsh i get connection refused !!
>
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