moving /var/mail to another machine

[Garance A Drosihn]

At 7:24 PM -0400 5/24/05, Lisa Casey wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I want to move all of the mailboxes (all of /var/mail/*) on one
>machine to another one across a network. I need to preserve
>permissions, uid's and gud's. (It would probably be good to
>preserve modification times as well). I can move a file using
>scp, but it doesn't preserve uid/gid

Check the port named net/rsync .  You can sync a directory from
one machine to another over ssh by using it.

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