Re: rsync on cygwin: Connection reset by peer

2001-10-22 Thread Dave Dykstra
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 08:42:17AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave: I remember a thread where it was decided to default to use chroot = no on systems that don't support it. Is it a pretty recent build? Am I remembering wrong? No, I think we decided to just improve the error message

Re: rsync on cygwin: Connection reset by peer

2001-10-22 Thread Dave Dykstra
Getting back to the original complaint that started this thread: On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 09:04:20PM -0700, Jake Repp wrote: I have been trying to get rsync running correctly on cygwin for the past couple of days. I found a post on the cygwin list that said there was a bug in cygwin when using

Re: rsync on cygwin: Connection reset by peer

2001-10-22 Thread Darryl Okahata
David Starks-Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm in a position to test rsync with Cygwin on Win98 and NT 4.0 in all possible modes. I'll endeavour to do that, and report back. Unfortunately it will be a few days before I can make progress. This doesn't have anything to do with daemon

Re: NT rsync

2001-10-22 Thread Dave Dykstra
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 09:46:43AM -0700, Mike Singleton wrote: ** Reply Requested by 10/23/2001 (Tuesday) ** Here is the syntax I have been using, yet it is unable to connect... rsync --progress ftp.funet.fi::pub/languages/CPAN/ \\c/ftp failed to connect to ftp.funet.fi - Attempt to

Re: Using rsync to mirror a hard drive.

2001-10-22 Thread tim . conway
the $(command) syntax is a ksh-specific form of backticking, which is nestable, and therefore more flexible than backticks (I always have to do all the intermediate steps into variables, and use variable substitution instead, for portability). You'll also see $((arithmetic expression)), and

Re: Using rsync to mirror a hard drive.

2001-10-22 Thread Ben Ricker
Cannot answer your other problems, but I find that the '--exclude-from=foo' where 'foo' is a file with the following: /proc /proc/* That does the trick for me skipping other directories. You can also test your rsync scripts to make sure they are excluding correctly by tacking 'n' on the end of

Re: Using rsync to mirror a hard drive.

2001-10-22 Thread Thaddeus L. Olczyk
On Mon, 22 Oct 2001 11:56:42 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: think what he actually wants is $? (in csh, $status). Maybe something like most people use: Sigh a second mistake. I seem to be in a mistake prone state the last few days. Not a good thing when setting up a backup system. I suppose

Connection Timeout

2001-10-22 Thread Jeff Sims
This is my first post so first of all I will say hello to everyone. I have rsync configured and working properly on my local network however when I try to connect from a remote host (one located in a different state) the connection times out. I was wondering if there was another way to set