Remote Commands Over SSH

Checksum Commands

Your rsync.net filesystem has access to the following checksum commands:

md5, sha1, sha256 and rmd160

Remote checksums are run in this manner:

Pipelining Through 'dd' (Database Dumps)

or perhaps:

Data Transfer to/from Amazon S3

rsync.net maintains the s3cmd binary in our environment so you can transfer data to and from Amazon S3:

All you need to do is create a default .s3cfg file in the root of your rsync.net filesystem (you need to place this there manually, as --configure is disabled) and then edit the access_key and secret_key fields. After you edit those two fields, you can begin running s3cmd commands remotely, like this:

A copy of the default .s3cfg file can be found here.

git

You can run the git command in our environment to do things like this:

Miscellaneous Unix Commands

The other remote commands that can be used over ssh are:

echo
test
tree
tail
cp (GNU)
ls
mkdir
pwd
chmod
ln
mv
rm
rmdir
touch
chgrp
groups
id
s3cmd
passwd
quota

For example, you can run something like:

and then:

The 'passwd' command is special, as it requires a '-t'

You can use the test command remotely, and return true/false to your local environment: