Re: Where can I find a secure file replication program?

From: securityfocus.com@delgreco.net
Date: 05/22/02 

Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 15:30:28 -0400
From: securityfocus.com@delgreco.net
To: security-basics@securityfocus.com

On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 11:42:43AM -0500, shawn merdinger wrote:
> hmmm....a simple cron job ith ssh should be able to handle this...maybe
> run it every cople of minutes.

The only problem with running a job like that in cron is you don't know
how long it will take , so either you set the jobs far apart (so they
won't step on each other, and take longer than they would have otherwise,
which could result in having a lot of synsc runing at the same time),
or you set them close together (to prevent a large lag time between
the servers). If you do this from cron, you should have some way of
making sure the last job isn't still running. You can always set it
up as a daemon, which goes in an infinite loop until its told to stop,
and has a wait of a few minutes before starting a new sync.

Rob