From what I read, rsync has to be installed in both places, but I was wondering if anyone has seen a hack or workaround?
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From what I read, rsync has to be installed in both places, but I was wondering if anyone has seen a hack or workaround?
I’ve bumped into this situation some months ago.
There was a range of HP-UX servers where we I was forbidden to install software.
So I deployed the rsync binaries in an unpriviledged user $HOME/rsync.
From then on, you just have to specify the following flag when calling rsync to tell it where the custom remote binary is,