On Sunday 30 January 2011 15:44:33 Martin (KDE) wrote: > 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 want to run a backup of certain directories overnight, whether I'm logged in or not. > > 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? > Similar. You provide your keys to the server, then when necessary keychain sends the public key, encrypted, for comparison. > > 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. > That's why keychain is used. It passes the passwords, but in an encrypted form. > > 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? > No, certain folders from my laptop to various folders on a data partition on my server. The folder structure is not the same as on the laptop, so a separate rsync statment has to be used for each section. Anne -- New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
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