Re: SSH1 and large files on 32-bit platforms

On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Ben Lindstrom wrote:
> tar -cf - dir | ssh -C remotehosts '| tar -xf -'

True, for some platforms...

mike@mojo{~}$ ssh -C eng2
<snip>
mike@eng2{~}$ tail /var/log/messages
<snip>
Mar 25 18:04:49 eng2 sshd[30690]: error: This platform does not support both privilege separation and compression Mar 25 18:04:49 eng2 sshd[30690]: error: Compression disabled

I'm sure most shops are doing privsep now, so -C may not work in all cases. (This specific example was RH 6.2.)

-mrh Received on Wed Mar 26 13:29:43 2003