[SWLUG] batch ftp

[Geraint Howell]

On Monday 13 October 2003 15:03, Tim Bonnell wrote:
> I just happened to be catching up on my magazines, and read an article on
> 'rsync'

A word of warning about this, though, which may save you a headache that I 
got.

I tried to get rsync up and running a while back, and just couldn't get it to 
work properly, before finally discovering the reason was that my .cshrc file 
was giving out some unexpected output to stdout.  I'm fairly confidently 
guessing that the same would be true of a .bashrc file.

This output was entirely my own doing, as I've set it up to echo a message 
back to the terminal if it, for example, finds a /opt/kde3/bin directory to 
add to the path.  This is handy, since I use this file across a number of 
differently configured computers.

Anyhow, just to let you know that, if you do use rsync, you need to make sure 
that when you start a new shell, nothing is echoed back to the terminal.

Regards

-- 
Geraint Howell,
Dept. of Computer Science,
University of Wales, Swansea,
Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP. UK.
Tel: (+44) (0)1792 205 678 x.4047
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