Can scp be used to update a directory?

[Les Mikesell]

On Sat, 2006-03-18 at 13:37, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Saturday 18 March 2006 19:20, Luc MAIGNAN wrote:
> > Try to use the -e flag :
> >
> >     rsync -auvz -e ssh from where
> >
> I've hit a brick wall there, Luc.  I set up keychain to monitor both ssh-keys 
> and gpg-keys, but I keep getting messages that one of my gpg keys is not 
> found.  When I tried a command with the -e flag as you suggested it 
> immediately failed with "/home/anne/.keychainrc: line 1: 2F62DB48: command 
> not found".
> 
> I had put this problem aside for the moment, thinking that the gpg-key was not 
> important in this situation, but it looks as though I was wrong.  It looks as 
> though I may have to address this problem first.

That sounds like a local keychain problem.  If you don't use it
at all or don't use ssh keys, it should just prompt you for the
remote password.

Test with somethng like 'ssh remote_server id'.  Once that works
you should be able to use 'rsync -e ssh ...'.

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  Les Mikesell
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