I used Cygwin SSH under Win 2000, and it works fine for me! There are some step-by-step installation instructions at: ...
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Ted Fong
tfong@...
Nov 2, 2001 3:54 pm
Unison server running in socket mode on NT4 will stop listening on the assigned Unison TCP port if a Control-C is issued by an NT4 client in the middle of a...
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Benjamin C. Pierce
benjamincpierce
Nov 11, 2001 11:27 pm
... This *should* be Unison's behavior in situations like the one you describe -- I'm not sure why this one is slipping through. (Probably just some exception...
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Benjamin C. Pierce
benjamincpierce
Nov 11, 2001 11:48 pm
... Yes, killing the client will probably leave the server in a confused state. We'll think a little if there's anything we can do about this. B ... BENJAMIN...
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gary_cao@...
gary_cao
Nov 12, 2001 12:52 pm
I try to use unison to synchronize a big files.as belows: I put a big file test.exe in the directiory a.tmp,trying to synchronize the file to remoteserver(...
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Ted Fong
tfong@...
Nov 12, 2001 2:13 pm
Rsync had a similar issue in older versions, but the latest version of rsync (2.4.6) appears to be more tolerant to client disconnects... Thanks, \\TF. ... ...
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elev009@...
elev009
Nov 13, 2001 6:42 pm
Hi, I'm using the latest version of Unison on a win98 machine. I'm trying to sync up a Eudora directory (where I have all of my mail). Actually, its more of a...
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David Brown
d3z
Nov 13, 2001 6:43 pm
... I've also seen the same thing with rsync. Given a sufficiently fast link, it can be faster to just copy a file over than to synchronize it with a similar...
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Yan Seiner
yan@...
Nov 15, 2001 1:19 pm
This is a resend with slight modifications - sorry if this reaches you twice..... --Yan Ok, more thoughts on this: I need unison to provide a log file that...
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Benjamin C. Pierce
benjamincpierce
Nov 15, 2001 1:19 pm
We are finishing up a paper on the design and implementation of Unison (to be submitted to Usenix), and we'd like to include some discussion of the kinds of...
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Benjamin C. Pierce
benjamincpierce
Nov 18, 2001 8:55 pm
In case others are curious about the big Unison users out there, here are some of the responses I received to my query a few days ago... B ... Just a note to...
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alberola@...
alberolaarias
Nov 20, 2001 9:45 am
Hello, I am using unison 2.7.7 to synchronize two replicas that has about 140000 files using ssh or rsh protocol but unison hangs. If I use replicas with fewer...
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Benjamin C. Pierce
benjamincpierce
Nov 20, 2001 12:29 pm
... This sounds like a known bug arising from a bug in the OCaml compiler. The next release of Unison should fix this problem. For the moment, you can work...
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Luke Blanshard
luke_blanshard
Nov 20, 2001 2:19 pm
You may be running into a known bug with OCaml, the language that Unison is written in. I have experienced the same problem, with a similar number of files....
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Lenz Grimmer
grimmer@...
Nov 20, 2001 7:51 pm
Hi ... Since I did not see this answered in the FAQ and I have always been wondering: why has unison been written in such an "exotic" language like OCaml? Bye,...
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Benjamin C. Pierce
benjamincpierce
Nov 21, 2001 1:53 am
... Short answer: for portability, performance, and general all-around excellent engineering. (This question came up in the context of an OCaml compiler bug,...
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Lenz Grimmer
grimmer@...
Nov 21, 2001 12:24 pm
... [SNIP] Thanks a lot for this detailed explanation :) IMHO it would make sense to add this to the FAQ (now that you've written it up anyway). Bye, LenZ -- ...
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Benjamin C. Pierce
benjamincpierce
Nov 21, 2001 12:52 pm
... Sure, we can do that. B...
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Chris Uhlik
cuhlik@...
Nov 24, 2001 1:30 pm
I'm trying to synchronize between two VFAT file systems on two machines each running Linux. Many of the file names are the old 8.3 form (e.g. DSCN0003.JPG)....
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Chris Uhlik
cuhlik@...
Nov 24, 2001 1:30 pm
It would be nice if unison recognized renamed files. A "renamed" file is one where a new file has appeared with the same size and checksum as one that has...
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Benjamin C. Pierce
benjamincpierce
Nov 24, 2001 2:11 pm
... Actually, Unison already knows how to ignore case when synchronizing between Windows systems or between a Windows and a Unix system. We didn't think to...
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Benjamin C. Pierce
benjamincpierce
Nov 24, 2001 2:12 pm
... This is probably our top-requested feature at the moment. We are working on it now. (Probably not for the next release, though -- we want to stabilize...
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Benjamin C. Pierce
benjamincpierce
Nov 25, 2001 6:52 pm
... The default behavior (if you don't set the logfile preference at all) is to put the log file in your home directory. Is even this not working? ... The GUI...
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E.L.
elev009
Nov 26, 2001 1:44 am
Hi,
Thanks for your help.
> > 1. The log file doesn't seem to be created. For the logfile
> > parameter, I've also tried giving it a path (like...
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Chris Uhlik
cuhlik@...
Nov 26, 2001 12:12 pm
... I think I agree with your philosophy and the goal of dealing with this at the transport layer. ... I run dual-boot systems where most of the filesystems...
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Lenz Grimmer
grimmer@...
Nov 26, 2001 12:53 pm
Hi, ... Well, it's not that fancy, but here it is: [SNIP] # Unison preferences file # The root dirs root = /home/lenzg root = ssh://grimmer@.../ #...
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panic123@...
panic123
Nov 28, 2001 2:24 am
When I do a sync with one of my directories I get the following error message: Failed with exception Util.Transient("Error in creating directory: File...
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gigaphoto@...
gigaphoto
Nov 28, 2001 2:28 am
Hi, i am a content user of Unison, which lately tried to sync a slightly bigger file/directory tree. Unison on the remote side (using ssh) has gotten to use...
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Jerome Vouillon
vouillon@...
Nov 28, 2001 9:07 am
... This has probably something to do with short names and long names. Something like this: - Unison created previously a file using a long name, and Windows ...
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Jerome Vouillon
vouillon@...
Nov 28, 2001 9:08 am
... Are you sure you don't have a per process limit of 64MB? -- Jérôme...
