Happy New Year everybody! I spent the last few days of 2004 trying to solve a puzzle. I have two WinXP machines. One, I set up six months ago to connect to my...
Hi, is there a way to run unison in mode where it actually only prints the required actions without executing them even when they do not seem to cause a...
Otterbein, Thomas (T.)
totterbe@...
Jan 3, 2005 4:19 pm
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This sounds like a common problem with recent Cygwin versions. A recent change to the cygwin dll broke unison on Win XP. There's some discussion of it here:...
... Wildcards in the "path" directive are expanded by looking at the local replica. For instance, if you have two local files "a" and "b", unison will behaves...
The FAQ tells us: ' killserver When set to true, this flag causes Unison to kill the remote server process when the synchronization is finished. This behavior...
I thought I have at least some of it figured out but ..... 1. I have 3 sites that I need to keep sync'd. All three are connected through a VPN tunnel. Am I...
Hi, I am trying to synchronise local directories on Windows machines and users' home directories on a Linux file server. For example: root = C:\Offline_Folder\...
Damien Tofan
damient@...
Jan 6, 2005 9:04 am
3359
Many versions of Unison won't talk to each other. For example, if a user tries to synchronize files using local version 2.9.1 and remote version 2.9.20,...
... Unfortunately, Unison only works when the client and server have *exactly* the same version number. (This choice simplified the implementation of the ...
... *exactly* ... of the ... Understood, thank you. Obviously that isn't the optimal choice from the user's point of view, but I understand the reasons for...
How do I delete or modify profiles in Windows? I assume this is all stored in registry settings or something? Since the directory I put the executable in is...
... Hey Max, Yep, configuring with public-key is a doable workaround, but the no ssh password problem is still bugging me. (It has been awhile: your unofficial...
I'm using version 2.10.4 on w2k, and when I try to synchronize a particular file, unison immediately fails with this: "Error: Error in localtime: Invalid...
Hi and happy new year, I've just installed unison 2.9.1 on my Mac (via fink) and on a remote Linux server (copied binary). I'm able to follow the tutorial...
Hi, I read the manual and learned about using 'follow' to treat symbolic links as transparent, but I can't get it to work. I added this to my profile: follow =...
Ryan Long
rdlong@...
Jan 8, 2005 10:18 pm
3367
... The Regex you want is .* , not * . See http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/download/beta-test/latest/unison-manual.html#pathspec, and man grep for...
... The're in files called <profile_name>.prf in a directory .unison. In XP and 2000 this would normally be in C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\.unison See...
Andrew Black (li)
andrew-li@...
Jan 11, 2005 3:26 pm
3369
... If you use the GUI then you get a list of differences with proposed actions, and you have to click a button marked "Go" to propagate any changes. If you...
Apparently Unison cannot do FTP? I thought it could. What is a good program that will do synchronization of FTP servers the same way Unison handles things?...
... Hmm. Good question. I use a hacked version of a Perl script http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6686 It's not that great, but good enough for my...
I have just begun using Unison. Great software! I do have a problem though. We have a 2 gigabyte web site that is hosted in a data center. The data center is...
... On Linux I used to use something called "weex" in former time to keep a remote ftp site in sync with my local working copy. It's only uni-directional and...
Actually, you are right! I think that was the property it was referring to. Either way, I now see the blurb in the docs: And I quote: "Unison is not bothered...
When I upgraded to a new laptop, I had to install the latest version of cygwin. Alas I could not drop down to level 10 needed to get unison working on Windows...
... In the uni-directional programs, there was `mirror' (a Perl script). Stefan...
Stefan Monnier
monnier@...
Jan 14, 2005 6:48 pm
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I've finally sync'd some dirs between a w32 machine and a Mac OS X one (by renaming all the files with accents), but I've had another problem: some of the...
Stefan Monnier
monnier@...
Jan 14, 2005 6:48 pm
3379
Hallo, I use Unison 2.9.1 to synchronize two windows xp boxes via flash disk. Unison does not see file with spaces in its filename, when I changed spaces into...
I have been testing version 2.10.4 mainly because I need the exit code in the text version. The problem is that I can't seem to get it to return anything...
Hi, I am trying to compile Unison 2.10.12 on Mac OS X version 10.3.6. I installed Ocaml 3.08.2 just fine. I even did some of the self compilation tests to...
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