Re: [gentoo-user] Re: unison
On Fri, 6 Oct 2006 00:12:55 + (UTC), James wrote: System A: ~/.mozilla/default/53a4kpfr.slt/bookmarks.html System B: ~/.mozilla/default/6xnd2dcf.slt/bookmarks.html Unison copies both dirs/files correctly back and forth but the different installations of mozilla use different paths to their bookmarks.html file. How would you suggest I fix this (merge) or use one as the master(correct) copy of bookmarks.html and get the other installation of mozilla to use the copied over file? I'd do ln -s 53a4kpfr.slt ~/.mozilla/default/6xnd2dcf.slt on System A and put follow .mozilla/default/6xnd2dcf.slt in the Unison profile. -- Neil Bothwick I am Demon of Borg. Redialling is futile. 400 assimilator busy. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Re: unison
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: Unison copies both dirs/files correctly back and forth but the different installations of mozilla use different paths to their bookmarks.html file. I'd do ln -s 53a4kpfr.slt ~/.mozilla/default/6xnd2dcf.slt on System A and put follow .mozilla/default/6xnd2dcf.slt in the Unison profile. Yea, a symlink and a script outside of unison is what I was going to do. I like your suggestion to use the 'follow' option in the Unison profile. Much cleaner. Thanks Neil! Unison is GREAT for my meeds. Also for programmers to back up their own projects and work to several different machines. I'm also going to introduce it to some windows folks. It's great for users/(non-admin programmers) to keep track of their files, as a first response before asking for restores from backup. I just hope it works on windows as well as it does on linux. We use quite a lot of different IDEs on PC to develop code for all sorts of microprocessor/dsps/soc I'm sure there will be problems with this sort of licensed/proprietary tools, but the sourcecode and the hex (binary) files should not be a problem under windows? Those files alone would be sufficient for a user level backup and to sync up files among programmers. James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: unison
On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 08:49:02 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Anyway, I had this problem a while ago and the fix is simple, emerge media-fonts/font-schumacher-misc I don't have this installed. Then I tried to run the GUI and it failed!! Did you install it? It was working previously, that's for sure. I wonder if the migrate to Xorg-7 caused this problem. (I just migrated last week) It was the upgrade to modular ~X that broke it for me. I used the commandline version until I found out about the fonts with some fairly intensive googling. It's clear you are missing something that was a part of the old monolithic X, but the error message is about as useful as a chocolate fireguard :( -- Neil Bothwick I yam Popeye o'de Borg. Preparez ta be askimiligrated. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Re: unison
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: http://bugs.donarmstrong.com/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=372545 It's a FONT problem?? Is this an old thread or have I missed a lot of posts? Anyway, I had this problem a while ago and the fix is simple, emerge media-fonts/font-schumacher-misc Hello Neil, I had these fonts installed on both systems already. I went ahead and rebuilt the fonts and unison on both systems. The gui interface now works greatno problems. (thanks) On another note, since you have some experience with unison. I want to sync up (2) portables, down to every file (including dot files, email boxes etc) using unison. This only applies to the user's home dir, not any other files. I have to be ready to travel at a moments notice and fix equipment for a variety of installations. I have identical setups on both portables, one is a p4 the other an amd64(turion). I cannot be caught in a situation where my portable is not ready for field support. Are there any files in my home dir that I should exclude from unison as they will be different, (due to the nature of the different arch's of the machines)? I do maintain identical world files on each machine as well as similar make.conf entries(except for arch related stuff). Off hand, I cannot think of any so I should just be able to point unison to the user's home dir (/home/james) and duplicate EVERYTHING?? I do have both system setup to only poll for email when I manually request it, but, that's all I can think of. However, I have not used something like unison before, so any suggestions or caveats would be most welcome. James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: unison
On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 15:31:43 + (UTC), James wrote: I want to sync up (2) portables, down to every file (including dot files, email boxes etc) using unison. This only applies to the user's home dir, not any other files. I have to be ready to travel at a moments notice and fix equipment for a variety of installations. I have identical setups on both portables, one is a p4 the other an amd64(turion). I cannot be caught in a situation where my portable is not ready for field support. Are there any files in my home dir that I should exclude from unison as they will be different, (due to the nature of the different arch's of the machines)? I do maintain identical world files on each machine as well as similar make.conf entries(except for arch related stuff). Off hand, I cannot think of any so I should just be able to point unison to the user's home dir (/home/james) and duplicate EVERYTHING?? I do have both system setup to only poll for email when I manually request it, but, that's all I can think of. The only things you are likely to want to exclude are config files, such as the mail config you mention. You also need to be sure that changes take; for example if you sync your Konqueror bookmarks and Konqueror is running, it will write its in-memory bookmarks to disc when it exits, overwriting the ones you just copied over. You can avoid this by logging out of the desktop on the destination machine before syncing. -- Neil Bothwick Several errant electrons jumped when they shouldn't have at a place they shouldn't have, resulting in what shouldn't have. In short, a short. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Re: unison
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: The only things you are likely to want to exclude are config files, such as the mail config you mention. You also need to be sure that changes take; for example if you sync your Konqueror bookmarks and Konqueror is running, it will write its in-memory bookmarks to disc when it exits, overwriting the ones you just copied over. You can avoid this by logging out of the desktop on the destination machine before syncing. Hello Neil, It's almost working perfectly. I have one delimma that I can solve with a script of my own, but, I was wondering if there is a method using unison, that I have not read about. The issue is mozilla's bookmarks.html file synchronization. System A: ~/.mozilla/default/53a4kpfr.slt/bookmarks.html System B: ~/.mozilla/default/6xnd2dcf.slt/bookmarks.html Unison copies both dirs/files correctly back and forth but the different installations of mozilla use different paths to their bookmarks.html file. How would you suggest I fix this (merge) or use one as the master(correct) copy of bookmarks.html and get the other installation of mozilla to use the copied over file? James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: unison
Ow Mun Heng Ow.Mun.Heng at wdc.com writes: I get this error: Uncaught exception Gpointer.Null Killed by signal 1. This is weird.. But see here http://bugs.donarmstrong.com/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=372545 It's a FONT problem?? Hello Ow, It does look like a bug, but with little experience with unison, somebody else is going to have to verify and post this bug, or wait until I gain more experience with unison. What if you do it via the CLI?? Well following this doc: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/download /releases/stable/unison-manual.html I can get the CLI to work. Interestingly, it starts the gui for me to enter the remote passwd into a gui ssh session. With that, I can easily use the command line, until I nail down the issue(s) I am using version 2.13.16 on both amd64 and x86 machines, since that is the latestvstable version on x86 and all versions are marked testing on the amd64. Or do you think I should install the 2.17.1-r1 version on the x86 and the amd64 machines? unison-2.13.16 is working fine on both arch's using the CLI. James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: unison
On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 19:05:07 + (UTC), James wrote: http://bugs.donarmstrong.com/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=372545 It's a FONT problem?? Hello Ow, It does look like a bug, but with little experience with unison, somebody else is going to have to verify and post this bug, or wait until I gain more experience with unison. Is this an old thread or have I missed a lot of posts? Anyway, I had this problem a while ago and the fix is simple, emerge media-fonts/font-schumacher-misc -- Neil Bothwick You are a completely unique individual, just like everybody else. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: unison
On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 19:05 +, James wrote: Ow Mun Heng Ow.Mun.Heng at wdc.com writes: What if you do it via the CLI?? Well following this doc: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/download /releases/stable/unison-manual.html I can get the CLI to work. Interestingly, it starts I am using version 2.13.16 on both amd64 and x86 machines, since that is the latestvstable version on x86 and all versions are marked testing on the amd64. Or do you think I should install the 2.17.1-r1 version on the x86 and the amd64 machines? if it's not stated as fixed, then I guess you can try it out anyway. No harm I guess. However, I do sometimes use the GUI, and it works. So I'm not too sure. I'm also using 2.13.16 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: unison
On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 21:32 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 19:05:07 + (UTC), James wrote: http://bugs.donarmstrong.com/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=372545 It's a FONT problem?? Hello Ow, It does look like a bug, but with little experience with unison, somebody else is going to have to verify and post this bug, or wait until I gain more experience with unison. Is this an old thread or have I missed a lot of posts? Not really Anyway, I had this problem a while ago and the fix is simple, emerge media-fonts/font-schumacher-misc I don't have this installed. Then I tried to run the GUI and it failed!! It was working previously, that's for sure. I wonder if the migrate to Xorg-7 caused this problem. (I just migrated last week) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: unison
James wireless at tampabay.rr.com writes: Here's the error I get: Uncaught exception Invalid_argument(ill-formed replica ssh://192.168.2.23://home/james/projects) that error message was when I tried to sync the files /home/james/projects When I try to make it simpler (smaller) using /home/james/projects/manuals I get this error: Uncaught exception Gpointer.Null Killed by signal 1. comments? james -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: unison
On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 03:36 +, james wrote: James wireless at tampabay.rr.com writes: Here's the error I get: Uncaught exception Invalid_argument(ill-formed replica ssh://192.168.2.23://home/james/projects) that error message was when I tried to sync the files /home/james/projects When I try to make it simpler (smaller) using /home/james/projects/manuals I get this error: Uncaught exception Gpointer.Null Killed by signal 1. comments? This is weird.. But see here http://bugs.donarmstrong.com/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=372545 It's a FONT problem?? What if you do it via the CLI?? $ unison -ui text ~/.unison/UNISON_OPERATION_NAME.prf james -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
