16:50 obraun 

Upgrade to 2.5.6.
SSH-patches are no longer needed, using ./configure --with-rsh=ssh instead.

Tested on sparc64 by:   Hiroki Sato <hrs@eos.ocn.ne.jp>

16:48 obrien 

rsync sometimes freezes during execution if it is run over ssh.   rsync turns on
blocking I/O mode if remote shell command is rsh   (ie. matched RSYNC_RSH) to
work around some broken rsh implementations   on other platforms.    

11:40 obrien 

Change the default remote protocol from RSH to SSH.