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Homework and Emergencies Emergency UNIX and Linux Support Copy a file from Linux Post 302449451 by pileofrogs on Monday 30th of August 2010 03:46:08 PM
Old 08-30-2010
When you say "copy a file" do you mean you want to copy one specific file one time or do you mean you have a reoccurring need to copy files?

Using scp is almost always the best option. It's secure, it's reliable and since you probably already have ssh set up, you probably don't need to set anything up that isn't already set up. If copying to/from windows you need to initiate the scp connection from an scp client (PuTTY is great) on the windows box for the no-need-to-set-anything-up claim to be true.

If you're trying to set up a regular automated copy, scp is still #1. You need to read up on using ssh keys for authentication. (Again the PuTTY manual is a good starting point if you're working from a windows perspective)

Other alternatives include putting the file on a web server, ftp server, smb server etc... but the conditions in which one of those would be better than scp are few. Could you tell us a little about why you don't want to use scp? Scp is the secure successor to rcp which is the remote version of cp, so I really think scp is what you want.
 

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systemd-machine-id-commit.service

SYSTEMD-MACHINE-ID-COMMIT.SERVICE(8)                     systemd-machine-id-commit.service                    SYSTEMD-MACHINE-ID-COMMIT.SERVICE(8)

NAME

       systemd-machine-id-commit.service - Commit a transient machine ID to disk

SYNOPSIS

       systemd-machine-id-commit.service

DESCRIPTION

       systemd-machine-id-commit.service is an early boot service responsible for committing transient /etc/machine-id files to a writable disk
       file system. See machine-id(5) for more information about machine IDs.

       This service is started after local-fs.target in case /etc/machine-id is a mount point of its own (usually from a memory file system such
       as "tmpfs") and /etc is writable. The service will invoke systemd-machine-id-setup --commit, which writes the current transient machine ID
       to disk and unmount the /etc/machine-id file in a race-free manner to ensure that file is always valid and accessible for other processes.
       See systemd-machine-id-setup(1) for details.

       The main use case of this service are systems where /etc/machine-id is read-only and initially not initialized. In this case, the system
       manager will generate a transient machine ID file on a memory file system, and mount it over /etc/machine-id, during the early boot phase.
       This service is then invoked in a later boot phase, as soon as /etc has been remounted writable and the ID may thus be committed to disk to
       make it permanent.

SEE ALSO

       systemd(1), systemd-machine-id-setup(1), machine-id(5), systemd-firstboot(1)

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