Rsync from windows 98 with a password file

2005-06-03 Thread Pete Letkeman
When I use this command from a Windows XP system everything works fine: C:\cwrsync\cwrsync>rsync.exe -avzr --stats --password file=c:\cwrsync\pete.secret --files-from=filesfrom.dat / [EMAIL PROTECTED]::testing But when I try if from a Windows 98 system I get this error message: "password file m

Re: Rsync from windows 98 with a password file

2005-06-03 Thread Ken Gregoire
You can only run W98 as a bat file. W98 does not support daemons. Here is what I do: Create win.bat rsync.exe --config=c:/rsyncd/rsyncd.conf --daemon --no-detach Put this in startup. Hope this helps. Cheers! Ken Pete Letkeman wrote: When I use this command from a Windows XP system everythi

Stupid --delete mistake

2005-06-03 Thread Ed
Hi, I’ve a nasty feeling I know the answer to this post, but I’m gonna ask and pray anyway J   I just made a rather stupid commandline ordering error and managed to delete a whole load of data (mostly word files/some pics fwiw) with rsync –delete.  I know, I’m an idiot (and a big one at t

Re: Stupid --delete mistake

2005-06-03 Thread Steve Bonds
On 6/3/05, Ed wrote: > I just made a rather stupid commandline ordering error and managed to delete > a whole load of data (mostly word files/some pics fwiw) with rsync –delete. > I know, I'm an idiot (and a big one at that). To make matters worse this > was off an ext3 partition, which from wha

please help -- Variable syntax error

2005-06-03 Thread Bhadri N Govindarajan
Hello I am using rsync to sync w machines. I had no problem untill. Now i am trying the same script to sync 2 differnt machines. The code is the same. I just changed the machine names. When i execute the script i get Variable syntax rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes read so far) r

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2005-06-03 Thread Bhadri N Govindarajan
Hello I am using rsync to sync w machines. I had no problem untill. Now i am trying the same script to sync 2 differnt machines. The code is the same. I just changed the machine names. When i execute the script i get Variable syntax rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes read so far) r