psync Panther and sym links
I can't find any references to my particular problem. I guess I'm special. I hope someone can shed a little light. I've used psync for years on OSX. I call it from a shell script during my daily cron. Everything worked great until Panther. When psync runs it copies symbolic links like normal. When I rerun it, psync thinks those symbolic links need to be copied again. Here's a simple way to duplicate my problem on all my Panther machines Bill:/ bill$ mkdir thing1 thing2 thing3 Bill:/ bill$ ln -s thing3 thing1/thing3 Bill:/ bill$ psync thing1 thing2 Scanning Destination Directory thing2 ... 0:. 1 items found. Scanning Source Item thing1 ... 0:. 2 items found. 0 items to delete, 0 items unchanged, 1 items to copy. copying items ... +l thing1/thing3 fixing directory attributes ... 00755,bill,admin thing2 Bill:/ bill$ psync thing1 thing2 Scanning Destination Directory thing2 ... 0:. 2 items found. Scanning Source Item thing1 ... 0:. 2 items found. 0 items to delete, 0 items unchanged, 1 items to copy. copying items ... +l thing1/thing3 fixing directory attributes ... The psync was reinstalled from the author's instructions with the Panther patch. Thank you for your help. Bill } Someday I'll look back on all this, } laugh nervously and change the subject
re: psync trouble
I'm getting close. psync doesn't seem to set file permissions. It sets directory permissions, sort of. I'm looking at the browser Camino. My source file /Camino.app/Contents/MacOS/Camino is set to 771. When psync copies it, the target /Camino.app/Contents/MacOS/Camino is set to 644. When I manually set it executable, the app launches fine. Problem solved by hand. Shouldn't psync set file permissions as well? If not how can I modify it to do so? Also, my psync output shows: 00776,admin,admin /test2/Camino.app/Contents/Resources but the directory looks to be 755: drwxr-xr-x 72 root admin 2448 Sep 25 10:13 Resources Sorry if this is obvious, but it has me searching. } All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, } education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, } the fresh-water system and public health, } what have the Romans ever done for us?
Re: Perl 5.8 locale
Thank you! The link you provided led me to another http://duke.usask.ca/~dalglb/macosx/Perl_5.6.html which had a script that created the environment.plist file and ended my locale problem. Happy in Pennsylvania Bill
Perl 5.8 locale
I'm using OSXS 10.2.4. One of the perl modules I want needs me to upgrade my perl 5.6. So first I tried the Apple supplied Perl-5.8.0-MacOSX.tar.gz. That was a hassle free install but led to my following error. I thought going thru CPAN and getting stable.tar.gz would help. After the config and install I ended up in the same place: * Welcome to Darwin! [iBookServer:~] admin% perl -v perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LC_ALL = (unset), LANG = en are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Failed to fall back to the standard locale (C). This is perl, v5.8.0 built for darwin * Can someone tell me how to permanently fix this? The temporary setenv LC_ALL C works. TIA Bill
