Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup-statistics on OSX?

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Gardyloo,

On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, gardyloo wrote:

>     However, now if I run rdiff-backup-statistics on the OSX machine, it 
> still gives me "no matching sessions found" (I know I'm running it on 
> the correct directory). I also tried "rdiff-backup -l", and it gives me 
> "Found 0 increments".  Also I just tried to do a tiny sample restore 
> (from the linux machine). Here is the resulting message:
>
>     bash: line 1: rdiff-backup: command not found
> Fatal Error: Truncated header string (problem probably originated remotely)
[...]
>    I'm not sure I trust this, because I have set up the PATH on that
> machine to include /sw/bin (where rdiff-backup and
> rdiff-backup-statistics are), and starting to type rdiff-b on the
> command line will tab-complete properly.

That doesn't necessarily mean that sshd is using your new path. If you 
added /sw/bin to your PATH in /etc/profile or ~/.profile, those files are 
not read (I think) when yu ssh to execute a command, becaue sshd doesn't 
start a login shell (which would read profiles) and sshd's own environment 
might not contain the new PATH entry. You can check that by running this 
command on the MacOS X box:

        sudo ps auxwwe | grep sshd | grep -v grep

and verify whether it shows the updated path. If not, try restarting sshd 
from a shell that definitely has the new environment, as root (not using 
sudo).

> Also, wouldn't this same message properly appear if the backup in the 
> first place couldn't happen (yet I can run that properly from the linux 
> machine)?

Yes, it should be the same, but please try the above command. If you use 
SSH keys for authentication then possibly the settings used by sshd might 
be different depending on which keys is being used.

Cheers, Chris.
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