Am Sonntag, 30. Januar 2011 schrieb Anne Wilson: Hallo Anne I am not sure I understood what you want to do. You want to sync some directories in the background between two or more computers without interaction? > I'm trying to get rsync to operate on a number of directories, but > not in a mirror situation where I can easily use an existing app. > I therefore wanted to set up a shell script which can be run over > the network using keychain to provide the necessary passwords. On > a single box it works perfectly, but of course the network makes > it more complicated. > > Part of the problem may be that I have followed too many how-tos, > and set things up in a way that fight. First, to get keychain > correctly running - As I understand keychain correct it is a kind of ssh-agent right? > > Keychain is set up in .bash_profile and works. Then I read that if > you are going to run a script with cron you need to eval keychain > within your script as it works in its own restricted environment. > This makes sense - but does that cause problems when I run tests > in bash, since keychain is already running? cron does not run in a restricted environment but in his own one. Many of those values usually set in your interactive bash shell are not set or known. But using ssh in a cron job means either no password for the key or a weak one as it has to be typed down somewhere. > > What happens at the moment is that the script appears to start, but > suddenly stops. System Monitor shows disk sleep for all the rsync > threads, and several kde applications are also affected, notibly > kwrite etc and dolphin etc.. what do you try to sync? Your kde config folder? > > To get out of the problem I have killed everything I can find > related to those apps, but I still end up with having to restart > the computer. Logging out isn't enough - even if I can. > Sometimes it won't accept logout or even shutdown, and have to > power off. Probably that's when I've tried too long to cure it. > > I desperately need some more experienced insight as to what is > happening here. Martin _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
