[geeks] Supressing output of /etc/issue

[Mark G. Thomas]

Hi,

On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 03:04:09PM -0400, Jeff Cole wrote:
> Here at $work we have an rsync job that syncs web content from one
> server to it's counterpart in the disaster recovery facility. The rsync
> actually runs over ssh, so, when it connects, the contents of /etc/issue
> are displayed. Since this is running as a cron job, every time the cron
> job runs, it generates an email with the contents of /etc/issue from the
> remote server.
> 
> Is there any way to supress the output of /etc/issue by passing a flag
> to rsync or ssh or something? Checking around google and such hasn't
> yielded helpful results. I have tried sending stdout of the cronjob to
> /dev/null, but, that didn't help. I'm assuming that the output of
> /etc/issue is to stderr or something. Sending stderr to /dev/null is a
> nogo as seeing error messages would be helpful.
> 
> Running on Solaris 8

How about this?

%  rsync -e "ssh -q" source destination:/path


Mark


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