Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?

2010-03-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:50:42 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: It is? In that case I don't know how I've managed with Linux since 1993 without it. That's what everyone who hasn't used screen says, I said the same. There are those that use screen and those that haven't tried it, I've yet to meet

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?

2010-03-17 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:50:42 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: It is? In that case I don't know how I've managed with Linux since 1993 without it. That's what everyone who hasn't used screen says, I said the same. There are those that use screen and those that

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?

2010-03-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 17 March 2010 08:46:36 Dale wrote: You really need to check out screen Peter. I'd be glad to help with the basics of it. That's a generous offer, Dale. I may take you up on it... -- Rgds Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?

2010-03-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:00:21 +, David W Noon wrote: As do the log files in $PORT_LOGDIR, they contain exactly the same output you would see in the terminal. Not quite. The sequence in which the ebuilds were run is lost when the discrete logs are your only source of tracing through,

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?

2010-03-16 Thread Stroller
On 15 Mar 2010, at 20:46, David W Noon wrote: ... Because emerge jobs produce copious amounts of output that is difficult to read as it scrolls past. I much prefer the cron daemon or at daemon to send me the output as email, so I can scroll backwards and forwards through it at my leisure.

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?

2010-03-16 Thread Alex Schuster
Stroller writes: I'm going to assume that you're not being facetious, however I'm amazed you don't know `screen`. Everyone should know `screen`! It's amazing, and I can't believe that if you had tried it then you wouldn't have it installed. I sure you'll wonder how you lived without it. Yes

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?

2010-03-16 Thread Stroller
On 16 Mar 2010, at 22:26, Alex Schuster wrote: ... I want to add one thing: I suggest changing the defscrollback value in /etc/screenrc from 100 to something much larger, I have 10. If not, you can only scroll back 100 lines, which is not that much. I don't *think* the default is as

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?

2010-03-16 Thread Alex Schuster
Stroller writes: On 16 Mar 2010, at 22:26, Alex Schuster wrote: ... I want to add one thing: I suggest changing the defscrollback value in /etc/screenrc from 100 to something much larger, I have 10. If not, you can only scroll back 100 lines, which is not that much. I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?

2010-03-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 16 March 2010 22:26:28 Alex Schuster wrote: Yes screen is quite essential. It is? In that case I don't know how I've managed with Linux since 1993 without it. -- Rgds Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?

2010-03-16 Thread Stroller
On 17 Mar 2010, at 00:50, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday 16 March 2010 22:26:28 Alex Schuster wrote: Yes screen is quite essential. It is? In that case I don't know how I've managed with Linux since 1993 without it. I don't know how I managed in my youth without a washing machine,

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?

2010-03-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 15 March 2010 02:44:56 fire-eyes wrote: Are you using the EU pool? I am, and I have that problem frequently. I don't have /that/ problem at all. The only problem I have with it is the Irish server in the pool - it wouldn't be enough to go for a cuppa while it's running; I'd have to

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?

2010-03-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:10:52 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: I don't have /that/ problem at all. The only problem I have with it is the Irish server in the pool - it wouldn't be enough to go for a cuppa while it's running; I'd have to come back tomorrow if I let it continue at its own pace*.

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?

2010-03-15 Thread David W Noon
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:10:02 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?: On Monday 15 March 2010 02:44:56 fire-eyes wrote: Are you using the EU pool? I am, and I have that problem frequently. I don't have /that/ problem at all. The only problem I have

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?

2010-03-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 15 March 2010 14:15:08 David W Noon wrote: You run your emerge --sync jobs by hand?!!! I run mine from the root crontab. My boxes aren't allowed to run all night, so I call a script that runs the updating process when I fire them up in the morning. No sweat. I also have it

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?

2010-03-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 15 March 2010 12:28:49 Neil Bothwick wrote: Is that heanet.ie? Yes. I always get decent speeds from there. Just shows what oddities show up from time to time in complex networks. My speed is far better from eastern Europe (Ukraine, Latvia, ...) than from just across the Irish

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?

2010-03-15 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 02:15:08PM +, David W Noon wrote: You run your emerge --sync jobs by hand?!!! Why is that surprising? My laptop does not have an always-on internet connection, nevermind it sits silently and off for most of the day. I sync by hand when I have time, roughly twice each

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?

2010-03-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 5:10 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Monday 15 March 2010 02:44:56 fire-eyes wrote: Are you using the EU pool? I am, and I have that problem frequently. I don't have /that/ problem at all. The only problem I have with it is the Irish server in

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?

2010-03-15 Thread David W Noon
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:00:02 +0100, Willie Wong wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?: On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 02:15:08PM +, David W Noon wrote: You run your emerge --sync jobs by hand?!!! Why is that surprising? Because emerge jobs produce copious amounts of output

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?

2010-03-15 Thread Stroller
On 15 Mar 2010, at 17:08, David W Noon wrote: On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:00:02 +0100, Willie Wong wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?: On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 02:15:08PM +, David W Noon wrote: You run your emerge --sync jobs by hand?!!! Why is that surprising

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?

2010-03-15 Thread David W Noon
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:20:02 +0100, Stroller wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?: On 15 Mar 2010, at 17:08, David W Noon wrote: On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:00:02 +0100, Willie Wong wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?: On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 02:15

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?

2010-03-15 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 05:08:06PM +, David W Noon wrote: On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:00:02 +0100, Willie Wong wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?: On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 02:15:08PM +, David W Noon wrote: You run your emerge --sync jobs by hand?!!! Why

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?

2010-03-15 Thread David W Noon
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:20:03 +0100, Willie Wong wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?: On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 05:08:06PM +, David W Noon wrote: [snip] Because emerge jobs produce copious amounts of output that is difficult to read as it scrolls past. I much prefer

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?

2010-03-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:46:11 +, David W Noon wrote: I do know `man less`, `man more`, etc., and output redirection to file. Heck, I'm even old enough to know Ctl+S and Ctl+Q, as I used to program PDP-11s back in the 1970s. But none of those addresses the fundamental issue of sitting there

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?

2010-03-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:10:41 +, David W Noon wrote: Also, for builds, there is such a thing as elogs (which allows you to save all messages to /var/log/portage for ease of reading at your leisure. I have mine go to /var/log/portage/log. But these only log the activities within a

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?

2010-03-15 Thread David W Noon
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:20:02 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?: On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:10:41 +, David W Noon wrote: Also, for builds, there is such a thing as elogs (which allows you to save all messages to /var/log/portage for ease

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?

2010-03-15 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 01:00:21AM +, David W Noon wrote On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:20:02 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote As do the log files in $PORT_LOGDIR, they contain exactly the same output you would see in the terminal. Not quite. The sequence in which the ebuilds were run is lost when

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?

2010-03-14 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 14.03.2010 00:42, schrieb pk: On 2010-03-13 20:15, Jarry wrote: obelix ~ # emerge --sync Starting rsync with rsync://134.68.220.73/gentoo-portage... Checking server timestamp ... timed out rsync error: received SIGINT, SIGTERM, or SIGHUP (code 20) at rsync.c(544) [receiver=3.0.6]

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?

2010-03-14 Thread fire-eyes
Jarry wrote: Hi, I noticed this error when I try to sync my portage tree: --- obelix ~ # emerge --sync Starting rsync with rsync://134.68.220.73/gentoo-portage... Checking server timestamp ... timed out rsync error: received SIGINT, SIGTERM, or SIGHUP (code 20) at rsync.c(544)

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?

2010-03-13 Thread pk
On 2010-03-13 20:15, Jarry wrote: obelix ~ # emerge --sync Starting rsync with rsync://134.68.220.73/gentoo-portage... Checking server timestamp ... timed out rsync error: received SIGINT, SIGTERM, or SIGHUP (code 20) at rsync.c(544) [receiver=3.0.6] Retrying... It's the server, not rsync