On 29.03.2011 01:50, Charles G Waldman wrote:
> Steven J. Yellin writes:
>   >       Since you have rsync, I assume you have the rsync rpm, in which case
>   >  you can use 'man rsync' to see about running rsync as a daemon.
>
> I don't think this is what the original poster was asking - if you
> look at his example, you will see that he is asking how to obtain
> SL5.4 via rsync, not how to set up rsync on SL5.4.
>
> One can explore the exported modules on an rsync server by using the
> double-colon syntax - to list all availableshares on the SL rsync server
>
> $ rsync rsync.scientificlinux.org::
>
> scientific     	Scientific Linux area
> fermi          	Fermi Linux area
> redhat         	RedHat Linux area
> extra          	Extra Repositories
> fedora         	Limited Fedora Area
> devel          	SL devel area
>
>
> Going down the 'scientificlinux' path
>
> $rsync rsync.scientificlinux.org::scientific
> [...]
> drwxr-xr-x        2048 2009/11/03 13:57:14 54
> drwxr-xr-x        2048 2010/05/18 15:16:19 55
> drwxr-xr-x        2048 2007/04/17 17:58:43 5rolling
> drwxr-xr-x        2048 2010/05/19 13:33:28 5x
> drwxr-xr-x        2048 2011/03/03 10:23:28 6.0
> drwxr-xr-x        2048 2011/03/04 08:55:22 6
> drwxr-xr-x        2048 2011/02/18 15:33:16 6rolling
> drwxr-xr-x        2048 2011/03/03 10:22:06 6x
>
> To rsync a copy of SL5.4 for 64-bit architecture, the path
> is rsync.scientificlinux.org::scientfic/54/x86_64 - try that
> in your command below
>
> $ rsync -vaH --delete --exclude=".~tmp~" rsync.scientificlinux.org::scientfic/54/x86_64 /storage/xxx/yyy
>
> Hope this helps,
>
>        - Charles
>
>
>   >   Use
>   >  'man rsyncd.conf' for further information about setting it up.  You can
>   >  also try googling "rsync server".  In any case, not only does a server for
>   >  rsync exist, you almost surely already have it.
>   >
>   >  Steven Yellin
>   >
>   >  On Mon, 28 Mar 2011, Ciprian Pinzaru wrote:
>   >
>   >  >  Hello,
>   >  >  Could you tell me if exist a server for rsync for SL 5.4?
>   >  >  Until now I made rsync with next script:
>   >  >  *#!/bin/bash
>   >  >  rsync -vaH --delete --exclude=".~tmp~"
>   >  >  rsync://server/mirrors/scientificlinux.org/54/x86_64/
>   >  >  /storage/vol_00/repo.grid.uaic.ro/mirrors/sl/5.4/
>   >  >
Hello,
When I try your command I  have next error:
[root@ramona mirrors]# rsync -vaH --delete --exclude=".~tmp~" 
rsync.scientificlinux.org::scientfic/54/x86_64 
/storage/vol_00/repo.grid.uaic.ro/mirrors/sl/5.4/
@ERROR: Unknown module 'scientfic'
rsync error: error starting client-server protocol (code 5) at 
main.c(1296) [receiver=2.6.8]
Tanks

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