Re: ssh often hangs where pserver succeeds

[Geoff Keating <geoffk at cygnus dot com>]

"H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> writes:

> On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 02:30:55AM -0700, Greg McGary wrote:
> > FYI...
> > 
> > I have noticed that cvs over ssh often hangs, especially for
> > long-running diffs and updates.  Running without locks via `cvs -n'
> > helps for diffs, but doesn't work correctly for updates.  On a whim I
> > reverted to pserver and so far it has succeeded every time where ssh
> > had been hanging.
> > 
> > Has anyone else experienced hangs with cvs over ssh?
> 
> I heard rsync hangs over ssh.

I heard that the maintainers use rsync over ssh extensively and have no
problems with it.  In fact, I heard Andrew gives an example in his
manpage of how he uses rsync over ssh from a cronjob every few hours.
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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@cygnus.com>