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From: pvo@uther.CS.ORST.EDU (Paul V O'Neill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: rcp as guest
Message-ID: <11745@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>
Date: 20 Jul 89 10:23:23 GMT
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In article <113700007@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> ddgg0881@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>   [guest@hostA wants to rcp (recursively) to hostB as root]


on hostB:

	/.rhosts contains the line:
	hostA guest

on hostA:

	/usr/local/bin/rtar = 
	#!/bin/csh
	tar cvfb - 20 $1 | rsh $2 "cd $3; tar xfBp -"

	cd to one directory above the directory you want to copy,
	type the command:

	rtar SourceDir 'hostA -l root' DestDir

BE CAREFUL!! Escape *'s ~'s and other characters that the shell would expand.

SourceDir will end up in DestDir.

This is actually better than rcp'ing, as symlinks are not followed and
modification times are preserved.



Paul O'Neill                 pvo@oce.orst.edu
Coastal Imaging Lab
OSU--Oceanography
Corvallis, OR  97331         503-737-3251