rsync

Works in Lycos, Debian, probably Slackware.

Installation

Add package rsync

According to man rsyncd.conf :
Add following line to /etc/inetd.conf , using tabs as field delimiters:
rsync stream tcp nowait root /usr/bin/rsync rsyncd --daemon

Restart inetd :
/etc/init.d/inetd restart

Create a basic /etc/rsyncd.conf (a fully-fledged version is more complicated than this):
transfer logging = true
log format %h %o %f %l %b
log file = rsyncd.log

Examine /var/log/syslog to confirm that there are no errors produced by the startup of rsync .

Usage examples

Uploading a file to a remote server:
rsync -av afile auser@ip:afile

afile is a file, auser is a username, ip is an IP address or website name.

Author:  Mark Carter
Created: 14-May-2005