[gentoo-user] Re: Hints for using Unison?

[Moshe Kaminsky <kaminsky@math.huji.ac.il>]

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Hi,

* Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> [01/08/05 02:42]:
> 
> On 7/31/05, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> > On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 13:43:16 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > 
> > >    One possibly tricky part about this will be that in some cases we
> > > have found bad rips and have reripped files to fix that. In this case
> > > there is going to be a newer file in each either location with the
> > > same name but with a new size & date. Will Unison give me an option to
> > > just accept the newer one in each location and remove or backup the
> > > older one automatically?
> > 
> > Unison is particularly good at handling this sort of situation. It keeps
> > a log of the file dates each time you sync and asks for manual
> > intervention when a file have been updated on both sides since the last
> > sync.
> > 
> 
> Hi Neil,
>    OK, so I tried Unison and, twice, it just gets stuck at the same
> file. I'm running it like this:
> 
> unison /home/mark/music /mnt/Musiclib 
> 
> The gui comes up and the program gets started but then it just hangs.
> There's no obvious network activity or local disk activity. If I let
> the program sit long enough for the screensaver to kick in then when I
> unlock the screen the program is just a grey box.
> 
> So far I cannot even kill the thing. kill -9 pid or killall -9 unison
> act like they killed it but ps aux says the process is still there.
> It's even there if I try killing the gui in Gnome. The gui goes away
> but the process persists.
> 
> Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?

This is just a guess, but I know that unison is using some lock files, 
and there might be problems with this on nfs mounted directories. I 
think the problem might be solved if you run unison on both machines, 
rather than using the mounted directory. If that's impossible, you might 
be able to change the location of the lock files by changing the root to 
a local directory.

Moshe

> 
> Thanks,
> Mark
> 
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