Re: SFTP keeps changing - What do i do?
From: Nico Kadel-Garcia (nkadel_at_verizon.net)
Date: 09/26/03
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Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 11:43:55 GMT
Martijn Bruns wrote:
> Hi again all!
>
> I've been getting harassments from various people for the last two
> days after installing newer versions of OpenSSH. Especially people who
> like to use batchfiles and batchmode with SFTP are having various
> problems. Basically, they're getting fed up, and me too, with the
> whole thing.
>
> 1) It looks like SFTP now exits when a command gives an error. You
> have to give a stupid '-' before the command to prevent this. This
> breaks compatibility with older versions, which crap out when you give
> a '-' before the command.
>
> 2) The output of "ls" is now different. You have to give it an 'ls -l'
> to get the long version.
>
> We have to maintain about 200 different hosts. We can't just update
> OpenSSH on all of them every time. Is there something like a
> compilibility flags or compile option or something?
User "rsync -e ssh" instead of sftp. sftp, like the "privilege
separation", is a relatively new tool and as you're encountering, is
still under development.
rsync is your *friend*: not only will it correctly duplicate things like
symbolic links, but it can be set not to copy the files unless they have
changed.
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