rsync (ssh) a fedora mirror

[Yang Xiao]

On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 07:40:47 -0500, Les Mikesell <les at futuresource.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 07:33, alain volmat wrote:
> 
> > thanks for your advice. Unfortunately, I guess this
> > solution only work in the case I have an account on
> > both machine, which is not the case since I'm trying
> > to login to one of the fedora mirrors (I don't have
> > account on any of those servers). That is why I was
> > looking for something like an anonymous account but
> > via SSH.
> 
> Some mirrors allow rsync access by running rsync
> in daemon mode instead of under rsh or ssh.  In
> this case you must use 2 colons after the hostname
> and the path may not match the filesystem exactly.
> You can test this with 'rsync site::'  and if
> you get back a list of exported modules, explore
> them with 'rsync site::module/path/'.  If you
> omit the local target you will just get a listing
> back from the remote.
> 
> ---
>  Les Mikesell
>   les at futuresource.com
> 
> 
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Hi,
Unless you can persuade someone on the mirror server to issue you
either an account or a ssh key, forget it.

Yang