Am Sonntag, 30. Januar 2011 schrieb Anne Wilson: > 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. What about a real backup software like i.e. rdiff-backup (rsync like) or others? > > > > 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. OK, I took a look in the net about keychain. > > > > 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. So I don't understand why this will prevent your kde-apps from running. Do they use keychain as well (fish or similar)? may be the keychain get brocken or "shutdown"? I guess a rsync without ssh works as expected did it? I do similar stuff for backup, but with rdiff-backup. but the problem with the key will be the same. > > Anne Martin _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
