[Gllug] Idea for meeting

Xander D Harkness xander at harkness.co.uk
Thu Nov 8 20:09:57 UTC 2001


I have not seen unison mentioned yet. Unison syncs using a remote shell
such as ssh or rsh.


http://wwwinfo.cern.ch/pdp/ose/linux/laptop/ftools/ftools.html


Cheers
Xander

On Wed, 2001-11-07 at 16:20, Steve Cobrin wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 Nov 2001 14:32, you wrote:
> > A thought I had (well, actually, someone suggested it to me, and I've seen
> > it at another LUG):
> >
> > One of the joys of Linux is that there are so many little tools out there
> > which are incredibly useful, but which you'd never find if no-one told you
> > about them.  I think it would be nice to have a small spot (5-10 minutes)
> > set aside between a couple of the talks for someone to introduce their
> > favourite 'small useful tool'.  It might also be a nice chance for someone
> > who doesn't want to give a full-length talk, for whatever reason, to talk
> > in a less formal way...
> >
> > Anyway, what do y'all think?
> 
> ok, one of the things I was going to mention in my talk is "mirror" which 
> takes a snapshot of an ftp site. I've been using it for over 10 years, and 
> find it very useful. Also I could remention "sudo", which I'm a great fan of.
> 
> If anybody want to recommend any other mirroring software, I'll try and take 
> a look at it, and offer some biased opinions :-) 
> [examples I can think of are: wget, emirror, fmirror]
> 
> > It might be too late now to do this for this week's meeting, but it might
> > be possible.  If anyone fancies volunteering for this week, get in touch
> > with me, and I'll make sure someone is there with your tool in their laptop
> > (Oo-er!) so you can demo it if you want, without having to take your own
> > laptop along.  You wouldn't have to demo it, but it might be nice...
> 
> the real issue is whether we can have internet access at the meeting :-/
> 
> >
> > Cheers
> > Richard
> 
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