Vdubjunkie

Rsync is quite a little prog. Glad I could have been the one to plant the seed there. In turn, thanks for turning me on to the "proper" config for ssh. For those freaks out there as thrilled by this idea as me, here is a very good site to visit for step by step on setting this up. http://cwrulug.cwru.edu/docs/ssh-agent.html If like me, your ssh protocol prefers to run v2, you will need to create the file ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2 instead of authorized_keys. If your not sure, heck have both files. It worked for me. aru.. I may be hitting you up again w/ scripting/coding, etc. questions as it is becoming very apparent those skills will be necessary to be a true "power user" in nix. Thanks again.

I've managed to configure two machines as NIS master/slave and Samba PDC/BDC. This was quite an accomplishment for me.. alright, I won't wait around for the pats on the back.. I've given them to myself.. My dillema is this. It is suggested to utilize cron/crontab to sync the /etc/samba/ files. That is fine, I even wrote up a working script. (first useful script I've written in linux) I'll list my syntax below: /usr/bin/rsync -avz --exclude '*.SID' --exclude '*.example' --exclude '*.tdb' -e ssh /etc/samba/ MedusaII:/etc/samba/ The first problem I have here is that it wants a password when I run this. Not too useful for unattended cron utilization I think. The other thing is that I was unsuccessful using the --exclude-from option. If maybe you could help with that syntax. Basically my file was like this: '*.SID' '*.example' Any help is mucho appreciated.