what different between two instruction
cp -r
rcp -r
"cp"=copy, "rcp"=remote copy. Does that answer your question?
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Originally Posted by tamer11007
What is problem in cp -r instruction to copy the root directory?
you have to copy it somewhere. This "somewhere" will be included in "cp -r"s scope because "cp -r" works recursively. If you don't take extra care and simply issue
cp will first copy everything to "/somewhere", then create a copy of "/somewhere" in "/somewhere/somewhere", then create a copy of "/somewhere/somewhere" in "/somewhere/somewhere/somewhere", ... It will create an infinite recursion until at some point it will simply exhaust the disk space. This is probably not what you had in mind when you issued the command.
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Originally Posted by tamer11007
What can use another instruction cp-r to copy the root directory?
Either use "rcp", because the destionation will be on another machine and therefore not interfere or use "tar" and a special file mask so that the resulting tar-file is not included in "tar"s scope - or something similar. In general: avoid the recursion leading to the destination being included in the target.
Now I want to copy a directry from Sco Unix at Windows NT 4.0 with Sp6. But I always meet the Permision Refuse error.
I need your help. GOD
Thank you very much. (1 Reply)
I am trying to set up RCP so root can access a few machines for file transfer. On the target machine, I have set up a .RHOSTS file that looks like:
10.33.1.59 root
However when I try to use RCP to copy a file to this machine, I get permission denied. Is it possible since another user is... (1 Reply)
i need some help on remote file copyieng.the queeries are:
1:>
m working on a machine say(abc) and i want to copy a directory(yes a directory) from a remote machine.
so what would be the command.
2:>
do in need to login on the source machine from where i want to copy a directory.
3:>
is it... (0 Replies)
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Daily, one of our RedHat Enterprise servers tries to get some files from other RedHat Enterprise server through rcp. Strangely, only the smallest files (about 80K) are transferred, the larger ones (about 40Mb) are not. The rcp doesn't issue any error message, only keeps waiting and waiting... (0 Replies)
Hi,
Good day to you all. I am trying to use rcp command to transfer some files on the remote machine. I have already setup .rhosts on my server and on the remote machine. When I do rcp I get this error message
rcmd_af: Lost connection
Is anybody familiar with this one? Thanks in advance.
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Hi,
When I try to use rcp I donīt recieve the file I try to fetch.
I donīt get any error message, it just execute and as far as I can tell doesnīt do anything.
I have no problem with using remsh to list the directory.
remsh 132.196.133.185 -l root ls
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Hi friends,
Am trying to push a file on a remote server to my local host but getting "permission denied." error.
Please let me know the basic steps that i need to have a look at in order to let the "rcp" command work successfully.
Pl. Note:
Both the servers belong to Sun Solaris 10... (5 Replies)
I HAVE A PERL SCRIPT WHICH RCP files from one server to another. The script is not having any issues for years and it is running for more than 3 years . Last week it had failed with error "Command timed out " error. Please help me out (2 Replies)
hi,
When i use RCP command to copy filr from a different servers, it is showing as connection refused???
ca anyone help me out???
thanks,
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
krcp
RCP(1) BSD General Commands Manual RCP(1)NAME
rcp -- copy file to and from remote machines
SYNOPSIS
rcp [-45FKpxz] [-P port] file1 file2
rcp [-45FKprxz] [-P port] file... directory
DESCRIPTION
rcp copies files between machines. Each file argument is either a remote file name of the form ``rname@rhost:path'' or a local file (contain-
ing no colon or with a slash before the first colon).
Supported options:
-4, -5, -K, -F, -x, -z
These options are passed on to rsh(1).
-P port
This will pass the option -p port to rsh(1).
-p Preserve file permissions.
-r Copy source directories recursively.
DIAGNOSTICS
rcp is implemented as a protocol on top of rsh(1), and thus requires a working rsh. If you intend to use Kerberos authentication, rsh needs
to be Kerberos aware, else you may see more or less strange errors, such as "login incorrect", or "lost connection".
HISTORY
The rcp utility first appeared in 4.2BSD. This version is derived from 4.3BSD-Reno.
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