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"I used to feel so alone in the city. All those gazillions of people and then me, on the outside. Because how do you meet a new person? I was very stumped by this for many years. And then I realized, you just say, “Hi.” They may ignore you. Or you may marry them. And that possibility is worth that one word." – Augusten Burroughs

Aug 21, 2008

Accidentally Using an Old Version of rsync

Last night I discovered I had been using an old version of rsync that did not use SSH by default! Something happened during my upgrade to Leopard that switched the default rsync from /usr/bin/rsync (v2.6.9) to an old version that must have been installed by fink in /sw/bin/rsync (v2.5.5)! I discovered the problem after a simple rsync command failed and I ran the command again with the -vv flags (to get a more verbose output). Sure enough, it was running with RSH and not SSH! Even the man page said RSH was the default! (On the upside, the suddenly broken PHP script I had written to help with deploying web projects, and which utilizes rsync over SSH, is not really broken after all.)

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