Directory comparison

[NoOp]

On 07/31/2009 05:42 PM, NoOp wrote:
> On 07/31/2009 02:09 PM, R Kimber wrote:
>> On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:42:17 -0700
>> NoOp wrote:
> ...
>>  
>>> Thanks, didn't realize that. I'll give unison a spin.
>> 
>> Have you tried it yet?
> 
> Nope. I'll give it a spin now.
> 
>> 
>> I can't get Unison to connect to my server. I was able to connect using
>> Nautilus and could use Meld, but I'd like to try Unison.
>> 
>> Any ideas as to why it might be failing to connect?
>> 
>> It gets as far as asking for the password, and then it pops up windows
>> 'Contacting server' and then 'Fatal error.  Lost connection with the
>> server'. I've tried quite a few times.
> 
> OK, testing now using the unison-gtk gui from this machine (jaunty) to
> another test machine (hardy). Attempting to sync a simple folder in my
> home directory here to the remote; login to the remote went just fine
> (using ssh), but now unison seems to be very busy scanning everything on
> this machine. It's stuck on my 6Gb virtualbox folder...
>   Seems odd in that I only wanted to sync a single folder, but I'll wait
> until it's finished & post back on the results.
> 
> For your connection issue; perhaps you can provide more details?
> 
> 

I finally had to close it... it was scanning my entire drive; most
likely an error on my part in setting it up. I'll give it a go again
tomorrow after reading the docs etc.