Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 16:51:49 -0800 From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: updating rdist Message-ID: <200011140052.eAE0q6213485@cwsys.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:17:42 PST." <20001112131741.A65293@dragon.nuxi.com>
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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 Gro > 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
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