Re: [gentoo-user] rsync locks up and doesn't continue

2006-09-27 Thread Stewart Taylor
Hi Don't know if this will help but I had a similar problem when I set up my archiving system. The problem was that I set it to use ssh which needs it own password and the password file was only used by rsync. the answer was to not use ssh and just use rsync client to rsync server. This was

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync locks up and doesn't continue

2006-09-27 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 20:03 +0100, Stewart Taylor wrote: Hi Don't know if this will help but I had a similar problem when I set up my archiving system. The problem was that I set it to use ssh which needs it own password and the password file was only used by rsync. the answer was to not

[gentoo-user] rsync locks up and doesn't continue

2006-09-24 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi all, I have a script that downloads my distfiles from machines on our LAN before going over the internet. It uses rsync over ssh to get files locally, then defaults to wget for internet downloads. The command line is basically this: /usr/bin/rsync -avzP --password-file=filename