From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Nov 12 13:18:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C50C37B479 for ; Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:18:51 -0800 (PST) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id NAA65350; Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:17:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:17:42 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: updating rdist Message-ID: <20001112131741.A65293@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: arch@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20001111211254.B75129@vger.bsdhome.com> <200011120246.eAC2ksC39398@cwsys.cwsent.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200011120246.eAC2ksC39398@cwsys.cwsent.com>; from Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca on Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 06:46:01PM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 06:46:01PM -0800, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group 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. > 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 -DFn -c name ... [login@]host[:dest] works very well. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message