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From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Hints for using Unison?
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 17:54:18
Message-Id: 5bdc1c8b050801104850b1bbe3@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Hints for using Unison? by Mark Knecht
1 On 8/1/05, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > On 8/1/05, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
3 > > On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 16:52:15 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
4 > >
5 > > > Possibly this problem is really an NFS issue or a 1394 issue? Neither
6 > > > of these are overly tested, at least on my system under Gentoo. I ran
7 > > > the same system with FC2 for quite awhile. 1394 worked fine as far as
8 > > > I could tell, but I never used NFS much and I only jsut set up NFS
9 > > > today to try out Unison so maybe it's one of those systems causing the
10 > > > problem?
11 > >
12 > > You don't use NFS with Unison, give it hostnames and it will copy ther
13 > > files with SSH.
14 > >
15 > > e.g. unison this box:/home/somedir ssh://otherbox/home/somedir
16 > >
17 >
18 > Neil,
19 > Thanks. This is helping me get to the root cause. It appears that
20 > the real problem has something to do with non-standard characters for
21 > American English.
22
23 Maybe the problem is only with the GUI of Unison? I tried ssh'ing into
24 my machine and running that way since it doesn't use the GUI and keeps
25 a record of what's going on in the terminal. This is not failing for
26 any of the non-standard American english characters.
27
28 Possibly time for a bug report?
29
30 Thanks,
31 Mark
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