Re: are redhat updates rsyncable

2001-01-24 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 12:05:02AM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: Anyone here know if redhat linux updates can be rsynced? If so, is it necessary to have rsh installed. I guess what I really need is to see the commands necessary to connect to a redhat `updates' ftp site with rsync. If it is

Re: rsync problem

2001-01-24 Thread Dave Dykstra
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 11:11:32AM +1100, Kevin Saenz wrote: Ok I have just inherited this system. For my lack of understanding please forgive me I believe that rsync in running in --daemon mode the version of rsync we are using is 2.4.6 also if this helps we are running rsync using the

Re: rsync 2.4.6 hangs in waitid() on Solaris 2.6 system

2001-01-24 Thread Dave Dykstra
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 11:59:18AM -0500, John Stoffel wrote: Hi all, This is a followup to bug report 2779 on the rsync bug tracking web site, I'm also seeing the hang in waitid() on the master process when trying to do an rsync on a single host. Basically, I've got a server with

Re: are redhat updates rsyncable

2001-01-24 Thread jp
Anyone here know if redhat linux updates can be rsynced? If so, is it necessary to have rsh installed. I guess what I really need is to see the commands necessary to connect to a redhat `updates' ftp site with rsync. If it is even possible. I have a script that I run with cron

Re: rsync 2.4.6 hangs in waitid() on Solaris 2.6 system

2001-01-24 Thread Eric Whiting
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 11:59:18AM -0500, John Stoffel wrote: Hi all, This is a followup to bug report 2779 on the rsync bug tracking web site, I'm also seeing the hang in waitid() on the master process when trying to do an rsync on a single host. snip Thanks, John John Stoffel

Re: rsync 2.4.6 hangs in waitid() on Solaris 2.6 system

2001-01-24 Thread John Stoffel
Dave Other people have reported similar experiences but nobody has Dave pointed to a problem in rsync; the problem is more likely to be Dave in NFS on the NetApp or Solaris machines. I believe most NFS Dave traffic goes over UDP but do you happen to know if it using TCP? Dave We have seen many

rsync exits with 'remsh' error from script

2001-01-24 Thread Denmark B. Weatherburn
Hi Listers, I hope this posting qualifies for your acceptance. I'm working on a Korn shell script to using rsync to synchronize several Sun hosts running Solaris 2.7. Below is the error message that I get. I'm not sure if there is a log file that can provide more information, but I checked

Re: rsync 2.4.6 hangs in waitid() on Solaris 2.6 system

2001-01-24 Thread John Stoffel
Quick follow to my previous posting today. I'm now using the -W flag on 2.4.6 again and it just hung. Luckily a 'kill -HUP' to the process it's waiting on will do the trick in terms of killing rsync cleaning. But it also means I have to sit and watch the damm thing do it's work and wait

Re: rsync memory usage ...

2001-01-24 Thread Martin Schwenke
"Cameron" == Cameron Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Cameron The other day I was moving a lot of data from one spot to Cameron another. About 12G in several 2G files. Anyway, I Cameron interrupted the transfer because I'd chosen a fairly slow Cameron way of doing it, and

Re: rsync 2.4.6 hangs in waitid() on Solaris 2.6 system

2001-01-24 Thread Dave Dykstra
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 03:48:06PM -0500, John Stoffel wrote: ... or it doesn't have a good heuristic that says: if I don't get *any* info after X seconds, just die where X would be something like 900 or 1200 seconds, which seems like a reasonable number. Have you tried --timeout? -

RE: rsync problem

2001-01-24 Thread David Bolen
Kevin Saenz [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] writes: I guess that might be the case but there is one question left to ask the total files that we rsync has not changed. why would this task cause problems all of a sudden? If it's not the per-file overhead adding up, have you suddenly picked up a huge file

RE: rsync memory usage ...

2001-01-24 Thread David Bolen
Cameron Simpson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] writes: | Cameron The other day I was moving a lot of data from one spot to | Cameron another. About 12G in several 2G files. [...] | Cameron so I used rsync so that its checksumming could speed past | Cameron the partially copied file. It