Re: empathy - is it for real?

2012-03-02 Thread Jan Köster
Am Freitag, den 02.03.2012, 13:54 +1000 schrieb Dan Irwin: 1) Not many people actually use empathy, or 2) Others are not seeing the problems I am. Well I'm using it without any problems so far (ICQ/Jabber). But as I'm not using it often I might just have been lucky so far. -- users mailing

Problems with webDAV and rsync

2012-02-20 Thread Jan Köster
I've rented some space at livedrive.com which I wanted to use as an online backup. Livedrive offers access via webdav and (s)ftp. When I mount the webdav share (using davfs2 or gvfs) and start rsyncing files this always fails with error 5 (input/output error) or error 2 (no such file). Same

Re: Problems with webDAV and rsync

2012-02-20 Thread Jan Köster
There are a lot of webdav services that won't work with davfs2 as davfs chunks the authentication bit and a lot of the davfs systems don't deal with that well. OwnCloud (granted, a Windows app) doesn't like it. Maybe I should have said that copying (using cp) works quite well though really

Re: Problems with webDAV and rsync

2012-02-20 Thread Jan Köster
I don't know if this would affect scp or sshfs. If they temporarily mount the filesystem via davfs2 to do the move, this might affect it as well. Just sharing what I've seen. Thanks for that. Hopefully the hoster knows what they are doing and can tell me if it depends on that. Maybe I

Re: Problems with webDAV and rsync

2012-02-20 Thread Jan Köster
I can say that the folk here that use Macs (OSX, not sure which flavor) seem to be able to use OwnCloud with no problems apparently, so it must not chunk the authentication. I can confirm that after further testing. Just tested cp with larger files (around 15 MB) in F16 (not working) and Mac