On 07/08/2010 01:44 PM, Duncan wrote:
Talking about strace... do you know enough about it and grep to go on what
I mentioned, or do you want a step-by, or is it simply not important
enough to you right now to worry about further?
No, I'm not familiar with strace. I don't expect to need to rsyn
Joe Zeff posted on Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:10:34 -0700 as excerpted:
> On 07/08/2010 12:57 PM, Duncan wrote:
>> Not in general that I know of... but there's some variability in
>> whether you ran rsync as root or as a user and which one, and the
>> permissions on the files and dirs, etc.
>
> I ran th
On 07/08/2010 12:57 PM, Duncan wrote:
Not in general that I know of... but there's some variability in whether
you ran rsync as root or as a user and which one, and the permissions on
the files and dirs, etc.
I ran them as myself, not as root; it's not exactly the type of thing
that seems to n
Joe Zeff posted on Thu, 08 Jul 2010 10:04:45 -0700 as excerpted:
> Is there some reason it might not have copied newsrc properly?
Not in general that I know of... but there's some variability in whether
you ran rsync as root or as a user and which one, and the permissions on
the files and dirs,
On 07/08/2010 01:02 AM, Duncan wrote:
It's the newsrcs that track read messages, tho, and servers.xml that
specified which newsrc file corresponds to which server, so it's gotta be
something to do with those files, whatever the problem is.
No, whoever it was a year ago, it wasn't me. I started
Bas Mevissen posted on Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:31:21 +0200 as excerpted:
> On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:35:30 -0700, Joe Zeff
> wrote:
>
> rsync -avr j...@khorlia.zeff.us:~/.pan2
> ~/.pan2
>
>
> You might add --delete to remove older no longer existing files from the
> destination. But take care
Joe Zeff posted on Wed, 07 Jul 2010 18:44:35 -0700 as excerpted:
>> Sorry I forgot to mention this earlier, as it did come up before,
>> when another user had the same issue.
>>
> As a matter of fact, no. I have the same username on both machines, and
> use the same Usenet account. And, to be sp
On 07/07/2010 04:00 PM, Duncan wrote:
First, please don't hijack threads.
That wasn't my intent, and I'm sorry it happened.
Note that the servers.xml file includes the full absolute path to the
newsrc file. What probably happened is that your username is different on
each machine, so while
Joe Zeff posted on Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:35:30 -0700 as excerpted:
> I recently followed the advice from this list and synced the copies of
> Pan on my desktop and laptop with rsync. (Using Fedora 13 Linux on both
> computers.) All seemed to go well, but the first time I opened the copy
> on my de
