Robert Denton wrote: > Good luck getting IIRC to compile. If I recall correctly, it is nearly > impossible. ;)
My IIRC is impossible to compile. It's suffering from continuous bit rot, and there's no checksums... The last successful compilation was over 50 years ago ;-) [IIRC is shorthand for "If I recall correctly" ;-)] The big hint is compilation and execution of rsync in the_Posix_ environment. Given the difficulties you might have getting rsync to login to the HP3000 automatically (the HP3000s I'm aware of have two layers of login - the main OS _isn't_ Posix), you may not have any choice but to use SSL so that you can connect to an rsyncd daemon using certificates. Even internally, I wouldn't dream of allowing unauthenticated access to rsyncd. Even if the machines weren't in-scope for Sarbanes-Oxley audits as ours are. > Robert > > > On Apr 25, 2007, at 2:22 PM, William Wang wrote: > >> Chris, Thanks for your input. I will definitely look into IIRC. >> >> Our requirement is very simple (at same time it's hard). We don't need >> SSL >> or anything like that. The data will be transferred within our subset of >> local network only. So data security is last thing we will need to worry. >> All we need is: get HP 3000 database image files out of hp. I would trade >> two years of my boss's life if I can make rsync (or something >> similar.) to >> work. >> >> William >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >> Behalf >> Of Chris Lewis >> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 10:36 AM >> To: rsync@lists.samba.org >> Subject: Re: Rsync for hp 3000 >> >> William Wang wrote: >>> Hi All, >>> >>> We have HP 3000 machine. We cannot get rid of it. We have few large >>> files >> we >>> want to get them out site HP 3000 in near real time. Since those >>> files are >>> large, daily dump is not an option for us. I am wondering if there's any >>> body had made rsync to work for HP 3000. >>> >>> Any input will be helpful. >> >> While I have not tried to compile rsync on HP3000, I have compiled and >> used similarly network-aware code on HP3000 which even included SSL >> (originally SSLeay and later OpenSSL IIRC). >> >> IIRC, the trick is to do it in Posix mode on the HP3000, and the >> configure script might need a teensy bit of hackery. It wasn't very >> hard to get SSL compiled, and the rest of our code needed no changes >> over code that was compilable on Sun, HPUX, Linux and even Windows. >> >> [IIRC, I had to bypass SSL's top-level configuration, and run the >> directory-specific configurator needed for just the library itself. >> Tho, I think I did configure/compile the whole thing once. Something to >> do with some obscure shell difference.] >> >> If I had had more experience on HP3000 than I did, it would have taken a >> lot less than the half day it took to do the compile the first time. >> >> If you're expecting to be able to do non-rsyncd access (eg: passwords or >> certs) to the HP3000, it may be a real problem getting past HP3000's >> login stuff. You'll probably need to run rsyncd. Our code was a pure >> SSL daemon using certs for authentication, and didn't get anywhere near >> HP3000 login stuff. >> >> You might run into some difficulty with wierd very-file-system-specific >> system calls tho. >> --To unsubscribe or change options: >> https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync >> Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html >> >> --To unsubscribe or change options: >> https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync >> Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > > > --To unsubscribe or change options: > https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync > Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
