I've been using unison for a few weeks, trying to keep a couple of geographically dispersed directories in sync. For a while it worked pretty well, but now it...
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Jerome Vouillon
vouillon@...
Apr 28, 2000 9:32 pm
... This error means that the server is crashing for some reason. When does it happen: immediately after you start unison, during the check for updates or...
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Luke Blanshard
Luke@...
Apr 28, 2000 10:25 pm
... During the check for updates. ... Well, I got 19 megs of output on the client and 22 on the server. Also, it died on a different error this time, an...
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Benjamin C. Pierce
bcpierce@...
Apr 28, 2000 10:48 pm
(Not sure if this got posted before...) I had this problem a couple of days ago. Did you perhaps compile unison with different version of the ocaml compiler...
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Luke Blanshard
Luke@...
Apr 28, 2000 11:11 pm
... Nope, I'm running one of the precompiled versions, the same on both machines. Now, one of them is running Linux 2.2.14 and the other is 2.2.13, but that's...
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Jerome Vouillon
vouillon@...
Apr 29, 2000 2:52 am
... The marshaling format has not changed since at least OCaml 1.06. So, there should be no compatibility problem between the different ocaml compilers. I...
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Benjamin C. Pierce
bcpierce@...
Apr 29, 2000 3:16 am
... You're right -- I was misremembering. B...
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Luke Blanshard
Luke@...
May 5, 2000 3:44 pm
Here's an update. I've switched to running unison on the NFS server machine, instead of the NFS client, and now unison is working perfectly. I have to assume...
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Yan Seiner
yan@...
May 24, 2000 1:25 pm
I've just started using unison, and I must say it worked "right out of the box". A piece of cake. I'd been struggling with rsync for a while and unison was a...
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Benjamin C. Pierce
bcpierce@...
May 24, 2000 2:28 pm
... I believe it would be pretty easy for us to add a simple form of uid/gid synchronization -- just making sure that the user and group ids of each file were...
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Yan Seiner
yan@...
May 24, 2000 2:44 pm
I am using the same numerical ID on both systems. The main purpose of this is to have off-site backups, with the secondary purpose of allowing a person to...
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Norman Ramsey
nr@...
May 24, 2000 3:13 pm
... Hmm. I have not notice unison changing the gid of my files. Gids are important to me, since I use a umask of 002, making all my files group r/w by...
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Luke Blanshard
Luke@...
May 24, 2000 3:30 pm
... Personally, I would advocate doing it by name instead of by number. That is, matching users and groups on the two systems by their names. Or providing...
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Benjamin Pierce
bcpierce@...
May 25, 2000 1:49 pm
... At the moment, unison does nothing at all with uids or gids (i.e., it doesn't work to preserve them when copying files). This is documented in the...
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Benjamin C. Pierce
bcpierce@...
Jun 2, 2000 11:08 pm
We will shortly be announcing a major new release of Unison. A beta-test version is now available from the usual place: ...
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loren@...
Jun 8, 2000 4:07 am
I have unison working from my desktop to my laptop, but it is not behaving quite the way I expected. I have a number of data files that are recreated (i.e....
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Benjamin C. Pierce
bcpierce@...
Jun 8, 2000 1:43 pm
... I'm not sure I understand precisely the behavior you're seeing, but here's one possibility: Unison needs to run one time with both replicas in the same...
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Loren Frank
loren@...
Jun 8, 2000 1:52 pm
... Ah. Now I understand. Sorry for the confusion.... Loren...
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kevin.cutts@...
Jun 8, 2000 3:56 pm
I have several sections of my computer synchronized. I end up sync'ing a couple of them one after another. Is there a way to create a 'group' of sync lists?...
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kevin.cutts@...
Jun 8, 2000 4:01 pm
Working under windows NT, I encounter problems with the case of files. Its amazing how easy it is to 'goof' up the case of a file name for directories that are...
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kevin.cutts@...
Jun 8, 2000 4:07 pm
If I have two directories that are identical and try to sync them, I usually get problems that need resolving. Rather than go through the hassle of fixing this...
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Yan Seiner
yan@...
Jun 8, 2000 4:12 pm
Sure. Run rsync once to get the copy synced with the master, then run unison to keep them up to snuff. rsync has its own benefits and problems - but it works...
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Benjamin C. Pierce
bcpierce@...
Jun 8, 2000 5:03 pm
... The -path option is probably the best way to do this. See the "Using Unison for all your files" section of the manual. B...
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Benjamin C. Pierce
bcpierce@...
Jun 8, 2000 6:11 pm
... Dealing with this is one of the things at the top of our priority list. It's actually surprisingly hard to see what is the right behavior for Unison here,...
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Benjamin C. Pierce
bcpierce@...
Jun 8, 2000 10:41 pm
The incremented major version number signals that we believe this release is pretty stable... Both courageous and conservative users are now welcome to...
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Luke Blanshard
Luke@...
Jun 8, 2000 10:50 pm
For the absent-minded among us, would you mind including a URL to the download site? Thanks, Luke...
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Jerome Vouillon
vouillon@...
Jun 8, 2000 10:52 pm
... You will find it on http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ -- Jerome...
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Luke Blanshard
Luke@...
Jun 9, 2000 3:05 pm
... I tried to upgrade, but it isn't working for me. I am running Linux. First, the gzipped versions of the programs differ from the unzipped versions. The...
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Luke Blanshard
Luke@...
Jun 9, 2000 3:41 pm
... Crap. Netscape must have screwed me up. Now it all comes out clean. ... OK, this was my mistake too. I was running the old version on the server side! I...
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Alexander Bergolth
leo@...
Jun 13, 2000 3:51 pm
Hi! I've just installed unison 2.1 on linux 2.2.15 (redhat 6.2) and noticed ... bergolth@...'s password: Looking for changes Looking for...
