Re: psync
Ulrich, Hi. On 2002.02.01, at 21:02, Ulrich auf dem Keller wrote: thanks for providing information on the useful psync command. I already tried it successfully for backups of entire partitions with a firewire drive as target directory. Since I would like to use it routinely on our institute MacOS X server I tried to include it into the root crontab file. Therefore I wrote a small script that only includes the path to psync and the psync command itself (I am a quite UNIX newbie). The problem was simple after all. See below. When I run the script as root from the command line being logged in as administrator and using sudo everything goes fine except that the finder is not able to display the icons before I logout and login again (this is no problem for me since I see everything correctly when browsing in the terminal). But when the cron job runs while nobody is logged in some files and directories are missing in the backup. Do you have any idea what is going wrong ? As for the icons psync does not backup Desktop (DB|DF) so simple desktop rebuilding will fix it (I deliberately did so but this can be altered very easily. Future version may include commandline switch to control which files/directories to ignore). And now for the cron Here is the little script for running psnyc: #!/bin/sh - # PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin sudo psync /Volumes/Data /Volumes/d-backup No. the trick is that you can't use sudo in cron. Remember you have to type in your password before you 'initialize' sudo? Anything that demands tty (that is, Terminal or any interactive commandline interface) will fail in cron. So here is what you should do in the script. And since you are already running as root via cron, there is no point sudoing; #!/bin/sh PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin ; export PATH psync /Volumes/Data /Volumes/d-backup /var/tmp/psync.out 21 # put all output to /var/tmp/psync.out #end and here my crontab entry: 15 1 * * * rootsh /etc/backuptest This can stay as is. Dan
Question about ProjectBuilder compilation of perl
Hi all, I am not experienced with MacOS X, but I would like to develop GUI application using wxPerl on MacOS X. I have looked through the archive, and was not able to find an answer, so I would like to ask for an information. As reported in the archive with ToolBox and Tk, wxPerl also shows the Bus error. According to wxPython-mac ML which succeeded to make wxPython work, this problem is because of the .app form of Python. (i.e., Perl for wxPerl, I guess.) http://lists.wxwindows.org/pipermail/wxpython-mac/2001-November/02.html questions: 1. Is there plans to build .app version of Perl? 2. Is it very difficult? (I can write Perl, but very little C) 3. Is there any word from apple about use AppKit yet? I have been contacting the wxperl developer but I believe I need your help for this matter. Thanks in advance. Gaou ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Apache::args vs Apache::Request speed
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 03:23:19PM -0500, Joe Schaefer wrote: Ian Ragsdale [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I hope a new release will be just around the corner, but if you want to test out some of the latest stuff, have a look at http://www.apache.org/~joes/ Would someone PLEASE volunteer to try to compile and test apache+mod_perl libapreq on OS/X using the experimental code I posted there? Even if you can't get it working, ANY feedback about what happened when you tried would be VERY helpful. Compiling as i write this :^}. If anyone else would like to send me a small handler which demonstrates the problem, it would be appreciated. BTW, does anyone know if the expat conflict is (no-longer) a problem on osx? just in case I'm using --disable-rule=EXPAT. rick
MacOSX Requests and Cookies
Ok.
Here's the output of localhost/perl-status?inc (elided)
Embedded Perl version v5.6.1 for Apache/1.3.23 (Darwin) mod_perl/1.26
process 2729,
running since Fri Feb 1 19:25:53 2002
Package Version Modified File
Apache 1.27 Tue May 1 13:11:20 2001
/usr/local/apache/perl/darwin/Apache.pm
snip/
Apache::Cookie 1.0 Sun Jan 20 12:19:24 2002
/usr/local/apache/perl/darwin/Apache/Cookie.pm
Apache::Request 1.0 Sun Jan 20 12:19:02 2002
/usr/local/apache/perl/darwin/Apache/Request.pm
This is with a statically linked mod_perl. It doesn't crash, but in my
(minimal) testing, it seems that Apache::Cookie is a no-op. I can't seem
to get it to set or retrieve any cookies, it fails silently.
Joe- ApacheCookie_* was not being boostrapped into the executable, so it
was being optimized of the linkage.
The following patch, while probably not correct (and probably the cause
of the silent failure), covers it.
--- http_main.c Fri Feb 1 19:22:51 2002
+++ http_main.c~Mon Jan 28 04:07:46 2002
@@ -7805,12 +7805,5 @@
{
return ApacheRequest_new(r);
}
-/*RAF*/
-#include apache_cookie.h
-ApacheCookie *suck_in_apcookie(request_rec *r);
-ApacheCookie *suck_in_apcookie(request_rec *r)
-{
-return ApacheCookie_new(r);
-}
#endif /* USE_APREQ */
-END PATCH
Also, the all-in-one compile method doesn't setup apache correctly, so
the steps taken were:
unpack everthing in the same root directory
mod_perl:
$ perl Makefile.PL APACHE_PREFIX=/usr/local/apache DO_HTTP=1 \
PREP_HTTP=1 USE_APACI=1 EVERYTHING=1
$ make
$ make install
http_apreq:
$ perl Makefile.PL
$ make
$ make install
apache:
$ CFLAGS='-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64' ./configure
--prefix=local/apache \
--enable-shared=max --disable-rule=EXPAT --with-layout=Apache \
--activate-module=src/modules/perl/libperl.a --disable-shared=perl
$ make
$ make install
rick
Re: MacOSX Requests and Cookies
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 10:39:02PM -0500, Joe Schaefer wrote:
Great - thanks a ton!
Not so great. I'm half asleep. You need to do patch -r or, apply the
forward patch included below...
rick
--- http_main.c~ Mon Jan 28 04:07:46 2002
+++ http_main.cFri Feb 1 19:22:51 2002
@@ -7805,5 +7805,12 @@
{
return ApacheRequest_new(r);
}
+/*RAF*/
+#include apache_cookie.h
+ApacheCookie *suck_in_apcookie(request_rec *r);
+ApacheCookie *suck_in_apcookie(request_rec *r)
+{
+return ApacheCookie_new(r);
+}
#endif /* USE_APREQ */
