[Orca-users] Remote Clients.

[Sean O'Neill]

At 10:41 AM 1/23/2003 -0800, Dave Lowenstein wrote:
>Jorge, here is the script I use. I set up ssh key based auth between the
>client systems and the orca host so the clients can scp without a
>password. This looks in the orcallator directory of the client machine for
>files with today's date that haven't been bunzip'ed yet, and then scps any
>files it finds to the orca server:
>
>#!/bin/sh
>DATE=`/bin/date "+%Y-%m-%d"`
>
>cd /usr/local/var/orca/orcallator/clientname
>FILES=`/bin/ls orcallator-$DATE* | grep -v bz2`
>
>for file in `echo $FILES`
>do
>/usr/local/bin/scp $file
>servername:/usr/local/var/orca/orcallator/clientname
>done
>
>There are probably other ways to do this but it works for me. I run it
>every 15 minutes.

Jorge, another option is to rsync (using ssh as its default transport) 
instead of scp in a similar type script.


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Sean O'Neill