Re: are redhat updates rsyncable

2001-01-26 Thread Cameron Simpson
| Thanks for the tips.. I've downloaded and built the binary as | suggested, and see the new improved behavior. However it still | doesn't seem possible to be selective about what gets downloaded. | | Apparently the site you chose above is setup in such a way that rsync | can't understand whe

Re: rsync with SCO? ...THANKS

2001-01-26 Thread Ed Weinberg
This is great. Join a list and immediately post a question, the answer comes back in 45 minutes, and you leave a client happy. On Fri, 26 Jan 2001 14:45:38 -0600, K S Braunsdorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Ed Weinberg" writes: >>I am trying to get rsync to work

Re: are redhat updates rsyncable

2001-01-26 Thread Cameron Simpson
| Anyone here know if redhat linux updates can be rsynced? If you're in Australia ,the mirror at mirror.aarnnet.edu.au has an rsync service. I sync the RH updates from there. | If so, is it necessary to have rsh installed. Nope. Speaks pure rsync protocol to the rsync service. | I guess what I

rsync with SCO?

2001-01-26 Thread Ed Weinberg
I am trying to get rsync to work over rsh between two SCO 5 systems. Before the flames start... I know this is insecure. They are on a private network, so security is not an issue. Compiling ssh on these machines is going to be a pain. My clients aplication runs on SCO. I would rathe

Re: The "out of memory" problem with large numbers of files

2001-01-26 Thread Dave Dykstra
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 12:12:31PM +0100, Schmitt, Martin wrote: > > Getting back to you guys afterwards to tell you how it went. > > Well, here I am. I've grabbed the 2.4.9 Solaris-2.51 binary from That's "2.4.6" by the way, not "2.4.9". > rsync.samba.org, ran it, and the transfer starts hangi

Re: Rsync passing over atimes

2001-01-26 Thread Dave Dykstra
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 05:23:35PM +1100, Michael James wrote: > There was some discussion about rsync preserving atimes > back in August last year that made the point that > you have to choose between ctime and atime > and ctime is often more important. > > But I have a situation where the be

Re: kind of negative rsync?

2001-01-26 Thread Goswin Brederlow
> " " == andreas haupt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, I'm new to rsync and just about to explore its > possibilities. > Is it possible to use rsync for what I would call a negative > sync by which I mean: > delete all the files on the remote site which exist o

Re: are redhat updates rsyncable

2001-01-26 Thread Goswin Brederlow
> " " == Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Of those listed I want `SRPMS' `updates' and `powertools' > So just trying to see what is under updates: rsync > rsync://ftp.wtfo.com/rh70/updates/ WTFO Mirror FTP Site > Please report any problems imme

Re: How to exclude binary executables?

2001-01-26 Thread Goswin Brederlow
> " " == Remko Scharroo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > First of all, I love rsync. After using mirror and rdist, rsync > really does it well and fast! > But there is one feature I miss in rsync that rdist has: there > seems to be no way to exclude binary executables from b

Re: are redhat updates rsyncable

2001-01-26 Thread Harry Putnam
[ Note: This message also Cc'ed to the address given in the error output below ] Alberto Accomazzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you use the latest sources from the CVS tree, an rsync on an > "rsync URL" lists its contents if the URL ends with a trailing slash: > > adsone-465: ./rsync-curr

kind of negative rsync?

2001-01-26 Thread andreas haupt
Hello, I'm new to rsync and just about to explore its possibilities. Is it possible to use rsync for what I would call a negative sync by which I mean: delete all the files on the remote site which exist on the local site and keep whatever exists only on the remote site? Ie. make the local and

RE: The "out of memory" problem with large numbers of files

2001-01-26 Thread Schmitt, Martin
> Getting back to you guys afterwards to tell you how it went. Well, here I am. I've grabbed the 2.4.9 Solaris-2.51 binary from rsync.samba.org, ran it, and the transfer starts hanging immediately after diving into the subdirectory that contains the bulk mass of files. waitid(P_PID, 6630, 0xEFFF