I use rsync -e ssh between work and home to sync my muttmail. What I'm trying to do is push really large files around quickly, video files to burn to cdrom(VideoCD format). Its a bummer to have to wait minutes for the files to transfer when you know you should be able to approach 10MBytes/sec speed on 100MB ethernet. So compression and encryption are undesirable. I just got rsync server stuff figured out: man rsyncd.conf /etc/rsyncd.conf: [my_tmp] path=/tmp The notation on the client side changes and is a bit tricky: rsync file.tmp rbox::my_tmp/file.tmp Notice the two ':' and the my_tmp "module" name. Much easier to setup than rcp and rlogin :) Mike: I think its the NIC card, I upgraded to 2.4.18 to pull in new 8139too.o NIC module, and it complains about too much interrupt activity to handle. I'll try a loopover cable, or swap out the NIC card till it works. On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 09:50:25AM -0500, Austad, Jay wrote: > rsync can use ssh, you don't need to set up rsh/rlogin. Plus, it's > encrypted that way, and you can tell it to use compression for faster speeds > (if you're already transferring compressed files, you won't see a speed > increase).