I've been having problems with rsyncs of mine hanging when going from an
HP to a Sun box.
The HP (cds11361) instantiates the connection, using the commands:
/usr/local/bin/rsync -acoz --delete --rsync-path=/usr/local/bin/rsync
bin* tools* share doc schultz:/usr1/cds/av2.0_445/red
Then, it seems to never finish. I've pstacked the server on the solaris
machine (schultz), and it seems to be sitting around in a poll. I'm not
too comfortable on HP's, though, to know well how to look at what it's
doing.
cds11361 is running hpux 11, and has the 2.4.6 rsync binary from the web
page. The binary was compiled on hpux 10.20, but past experience has
shown 10.20 binaries to work fine under hpux 11 (for instance, we build
_our_ product under 10.20 since some customers still run it, but it runs
fine under 11 for the people who run that)
Schultz is running Solaris 7, with maintanance update 4 applied, and has
the 2.4.6 rsync binary from the web page. Once again, that's compiled on
a lower operating system rev (solaris 2.5.1), but just as with the HP's,
that hasn't been an issue, and we compile the Solaris port of our
product under 2.5.1, and it runs just fine under 2.5.1, 2.6, and 2.7
(there're a few problems under 2.8 :( Shame on Sun for breaking
backwards compatability)
The amount of data being synched is around 1.5-2 gig, and it's rsynced
every 12 hours, with most of the data remaining the same (maybe 200-300
megs change regularly, most of the big files stay unchanged for months)
I do a nearly identical rsync between our Solaris build machine (poly)
and schultz, and that's been working flawlessly. Poly is running solaris
2.5.1, and has the same binary as schultz.
The next thing I'll try when I have a minute is building my own
executable under hpux 11; there's the chance that something in the
binary I grabbed doesn't work under hpux 11. If my new one does, I'll
try building my own one under hpux 10.20, and see how that one runs on
cds11361.
Also, I'll crank up the verbosity, and take a peek at what it thinks its
doing.
But since I'm a bit swamped right now with other projects, I thought I'd
put out feelers to see if any of you have seen problems with rsyncs
hanging between HPs & suns (or perhaps it's the HP binary; I haven't
tried running an rsync between two HP's)
If anyone has any ideas, let me know, otherwise I'll just post results
after I've had a chance to play around with this some more.
Thanks
--
David Hoover
