Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 17:01:30 -0800 From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: updating rdist Message-ID: <200011140102.eAE126313557@cwsys.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 13 Nov 2000 16:51:49 PST." <200011140052.eAE0q6213485@cwsys.cwsent.com>
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Oops this should have been sent to David directly, not to -arch. I assumed that reply-to-sender did the right thing without checking. Sorry. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA Province of BC In message <200011140052.eAE0q6213485@cwsys.cwsent.com>, Cy Schubert - ITSD Ope n Systems Group writes: > In message <20001112131741.A65293@dragon.nuxi.com>, "David O'Brien" > writes: > > On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 06:46:01PM -0800, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems G > ro > > up wrote: > > > If you want to use something truly modern: Use rsync. > > > > I'd love to, but I've decided it is a POS. I constantly hangs for me > > (and has for serval rsync releases now) when I try to copy an Alpha > > release to ftp.freebsd.org (or any other FreeBSD box). I guess I should > > spend the time to put tons of printf()s in the code as "-vvvvv" hasn't > > given my anything to go on. > > Various versions of rsync have had hang problems. 2.4.6 doesn't appear > to have any hang problems. > > All of my recent (since this spring) rsync hangs have been related to > IP Filter's RCMD proxy. For some reason, at around FreeBSD 4.1 and IPF > 3.4.6 I was experiencing more rsync hangs, about the same time that rcp > & krcp, and tar | rsh tar would hang. Switching to ssh (kind of a > waste because of the encryption over an encrypted channel because I use > IPSec between home and my desktop system at work) solved the problem > because I no longer needed IPF's RCMD proxy. > > If you use a statefull firewall between rsync peers, try opening the > firewall between the two nodes. > > > > > > why not install rsync instead. It's eaiser to use and doesn't require > > > a distfile. That's why I think rdist is bloat. > > > > It doesn't anymore. :-) > > rdist6's rdist -P <transport-path> -DFn -c name ... [login@]host[:dest] > > works very well. > > This is cool! > > I also use rsync to synchronise data between a SCSI disk and a SCSI Zip > drive on the same machine. It beats copying files by hand or some > other means which would copy everything. I suppose one could rdist to > localhost to obtain the same effect. > > Hopefully your rsync problems will be as easy to solve as mine were. > > > Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 > Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 > Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca > Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA > Province of BC > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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