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

[gardyloo]

   Many thanks to Jim Nasby and Chris Wilson. Both have suggested some
(related) things for me to try. I will not have time to try these until
possibly several days from now, but I will get back to the list with
what I've found. One problem is that I'm *somewhat* familiar with linux,
and only vaguely familiar with ssh, and OSX, despite being a *NIX
variant at heart, seems to do some things in ways which are totally
confusing to me. So it will take me some time to learn which tricks to try.

        Thanks for readers' forbearance, and the list's help!

             Curtis O.

Chris Wilson wrote:
> 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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