> > Eh, why don't you just install the package from $FAVOURITEDISTRO? > > If that is a ENOENT, copy it from another distro. > > Because I only have root access on one of the two machines. That's why I > needed to do a user-install from source. Unfortunately the other machine > doesn't have objective caml either, so I've given up and will just use > rsync :)
rsync doesn't require root to install. It requires the rsync binary (of a reasonably close enough version) to be in the path, and login access via either rsh, ssh, or anything else which works the same. You can even run the rsync daemon as user on an unpriviledged port, of course then you can't read /etc/shadow. Unison appears to be the same, getting hold of a Linux binary should be trivial. If the other machine is not Linux, you'd only need access to a binary-compatible machine which has sufficient tools to compile, then copy the binary. I wonder whether rsync is a bit more enterprise strength though: * Unison's rsync-based file transfer mechanism has trouble with very large files. For example, a 500Mb file will run the OCaml system out of memory on some configurations. * Doesn't support hardlinks. The latter might be a non-issue with M$ but is a k.o. for Unix. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
