[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread] List: unison-users Subject: Re: [unison-users] Location of Profiles in Mac GUI? Synchronization happens through an SSH link from Windows XP to Max OS 10.6 (or Windows XP to whatever other computer you have). Download and unzip Unison. The following steps should be carried out on each of the Windows clients. These instructions are for solving a specific problem: synchronizing data data between two Windows computers using SSH to access a central repository on a Linux (Debian Testing) server that is listening on a nonstandard port (in this example the port is 8000). Karl Moerder contributed some scripts that he uses to make the command window a bit more attractive. Sorry I don't have time (nor a posting place) for a full cookbook-style howto. Script 1 provides that ENVIRONMENT to 's crontab file. With your Unison.app, I was able to reproduce the crash. I have been using the cygwin port of Unison under Windows for years: just check out your preferred Unison version(s) with the cygwin setup tool and you are set to go! Short version: - It works (so far) - It would be great to automatically convert filenames created on a Mac (NFD) to the NFC normal-form used on Linux (by convention) when this file is first synched (and therefore created by unison on the Linux side). It allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or different disks on the same host), modified separately, and then brought up to date by propagating the changes in each replica to the other. Create a file .MacOSX/environment.plist in your home directory containing: You can easily set the value of UNISONLOCALHOSTNAME in .MacOSX/environment.plist to the current hostname with the following command: For more information about this file, see here. My Debian server currently runs version 2.13. Spotlight comments of a file "foo" are stored in the .DS_Store file of the directory containing "foo". A copy of these instructions can be found at http://www.sbtechsolutions.biz/synchronization/unison. Please let me know if and how I can provide more debugging information.--Marcus 'ÝZåÜoH5X4Ë
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TIP: Once you have filled in the host name, select 'Save' to save the putty session information. It is critical that the server and the client run the same version (at least the same major and minor numbers). Install the GTK package and merge the files of the other packages into similarly named directories of the GTK package install. Darling is very similar to Wine. It display warning and conflicts when occurs. A workaround is the following one: on the 32 bit system nothing changes, but on the 64 bit system you don't use a native 64 bit version of unison, but a 32 bit one that is run in the 32 bit compatibility mode. This is very similar to the instructions referenced elsewhere on this page by Martin Cleaver (see: How can I get Unison to talk through a Putty link on Windows?). Just drag a source and drop it to any target you want on the GUI … Install Unison on Client and Host. Unison Audio MIDI Chord Pack. On the computer that will function as the client: 2) download or copy the Unison executables that you wish to use (either the text based, the GUI or both) to the client machine. With a home co-investment from Unison, you get cash today in exchange for … Do this even if you do not intend to use relative addressing as this environment variable must exist. At that point, it should first display a relatively long message window and give you the option of establishing the connection even though there is no registry or cache that matches the server. Unison can synchronize any new music she has added on her main hard drive, and will delete any music she has deleted from her main drive. In order to do a Spotlight import of files in directories whose .DS_Store has been modified, one may use the following script daily (it searches for modified .DS_Store during the last day). Unison has a nice interface where you can view the progress and changes. The ssh.bat file should contain the following line, adjusted for your connection settings: The "@" is important. I also used Putty for testing, but now I believe it's not used at all in my final setup. Karl Crary has a different workaround for this problem, using socket connections and port forwarding. Running unison_win32-gtkui.exe, I get a dialog box that reads: and a message is printed to stderr in the bash window that reads: My guess is that this is caused by some incompatibility between the Ocaml Win32 library routines and Cygwin with regard to setting up argv[] for child processes. Seeing as how it is very unlikely that everything in the food chain between my system and the server supports IPv6, this just speeds up the process of having the server figure that out. At that point, if you answer "Yes", then the registry/cache item will be created which will allow future connections to operate without this interruption. 6. Generic Unix Mac OS X Windows Help Requests. If the libraries are not on your system, you can install them from http://gtk-win.sourceforge.net/home/index.php/Main/Downloads. A swift search of the internet revealed that adding the following two lines to the bottom of the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file fixes the problem: "UseDNS no" disables DNS lookups by the SSH server. Use the username and password you established in step 3, above. Note that this "cygdrive = master virtual root" feature may work perfectly well from the ssh command line, both in a remote shell and from the client's CLI, but it does NOT work in specifying the root path for Unison. synchronizing files with resource forks, handling of creator strings, -print | tr A-Z a-z | sort | uniq -c | awk '$1 > 1' |, my_canonical_host_name_for_unison, defaults write ~/.MacOSX/environment UNISONLOCALHOSTNAME `hostname`, echo "Spotlight importer starting at `date`", find /Users/schmitta/Documents /Users/schmitta/bin /Users/schmitta/perso /Users/schmitta/work -name .DS_Store -mtime 1 |, echo "Spotlight importer finished at `date`", mdfind "kMDItemCFBundleIdentifier == 'edu.upenn.cis.Unison'", Fatal error: Error in checkServer: Broken pipe [read()]. Then you start up the Unison GUI and create a profile. It is thus recommended to have only one version of the Unison OS X binary. Unison will be able to syncronise both computers ove… Download and install the GTK+ Runtime Environment. I've attached the logs, they are nearly identical to the previous crash reports. I would like to receive 10% off my first purchase, easy access to free products, special offers, and more by signing up to the Unison newsletter. The studio aims to be handy to a novice and powerful enough for a pro. 7. Once your profile is set up, you can start syncing: or using the GUI tool: and select the profile. On both machines, run (unison-gtk is GUI if you want it): sudo apt-get install unison unison-gtk Create One Script. Unison will refuse to synchronize such files. Brian Mork (increa.com) created unison profiles and the syntax for a desktop shortcut. http://www.sbtechsolutions.biz/synchronization/unison. Alternatives to Unison for Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD, Android and more. This is the full GUI for Mac, once you run the app it will ask you to install the command line tools. "AddressFamily inet" tells it that I only want to use IPv4. ݵMܧVXüiàsw. 3) run Putty to confirm you can establish a connection to your server. If you make a symbolic link to the executable, you can edit the properties box to make this window come up iconic. Of course, this is only important if you want to use the gui. If it doesn't, swiftly download and install the latest version of Kubuntu. It only understands ordinary files, directories, and symlinks. I've heard that the Unix file locking mechanism doesn't work very well under NFS. The main differences are: 1) I used freeSSHd for the ssh server; and, 2) operating on a vpn allows the luxury of dispensing with public/private keys and instead using just username/password for authentication. Giving your files or directories shorter names may help to avoid this problem. has already been purchased, you can access this purchase via the ‘Downloads’ button below. If it's removed, it appears that the last command is broken into several segments. The macnew09 GUI uses the BWToolkit plugin for Interface Builder; unfortunately, Xcode 4 currently does not support .ibplugin files. Unison GUI. This is useful for: -l sets the username and -pw sets the password. And after I have chosen what to merge into the middle, I want to press save and close the meld-Gui and afterwards the merged document should overright both the versions local and on the server (this is praobably what 90% of Unison-users want). From the command line you can then call the text version with the following command: unison -ui text The solution is to launch Unison from a DOS command prompt instead; or see section X. Martin Cleaver has written up a set of instructions here. Justine has a lot of music and would want to back it up to another drive in case her main drive fails. The first time you run the program a wizard will ask you to select a local directory and a second directory that can be local to … Antony Courtney contributed the following comment: I ran in to some difficulties trying to use this ssh client with Unison, and tracked down at least one of the problems. Sshcmd tells Unison to run the following command to create the SSH connection. Everything should work! Unison will have a uniform feel in accordance with the community's overall opinions. How can I get Unison to talk through a Putty link on Windows? Overview Mailing lists Downloads Ryan has a laptop and a desktop computer. This should echo to the screen the version of Unison. MUnison is a unique combination of doubler/unison and smart harmonizer. This lets you answer the question about accepting the server's key. (Uh oh... Michael writes, later: Actually, I've been communicating with one of the people afflicted with this So that's it, I think I've hit the main gotcha's, but general advice is to start basic, following the tutorial in the docs - first get Unison working local-to-local, then on a LAN host-to-host in sockets mode, then setup SSH with COPSSH and Putty for testing. Linux uses -p, Windows uses -P. Go figure. The extra console window is there for ssh to use to get your password. Unison is a file-synchronization tool for OSX, Unix, and Windows. It lets your vocals sound like a choir with automatically scaled harmonies and your instruments like an orchestra. This makes Unison a reliable command line alternative application that can be used to maintain backups. Where I have typed mysavedputtysession, use your saved putty session name. I used plinker.bat and it contains a single line with the following: As has been noted in other tutorials, the "@" sign is critical. When you allow this it will put unison in /usr/bin/ . From ... on platforms other than Mac there should be a .unison > folder where the profiles and the preferences are stored. 4) establish a batch file which provides the link between Unison and plink. My "unison root" was on a different drive from my SSH server's executables, and I couldn't get it to work re-installing COPSSH to the D: drive - I really noodled around with this for hours, was on the verge on experimenting with NTFS "junction links" which would require converting the filesystem of my target drive, but while I was waiting for my backup to complete before going ahead, I hit upon - well, here's my batch file: Note the drive letter syntax in the target URI; unisong.exe is my name for the gui version, and the weird IP address is because I'm doing all this within a Hamachi VPN/tunnel as well in order to punch through my employer's firewall. Unison is a carefully-crafted, genuinely revolutionary Mac OS X Usenet newsreader. File Synchronizer Downloads: Downloads Available here! Putty then opens a dos window and presents you with a login prompt. Profiles created by Unison are stored in ~/Library/Application Support/Unison as *.prf files that can be edited by any text editor (I use TextMate). This appears to be a problem with the Cygwin DLL version 1.5.11, perhaps in conflict with Win XP. It allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or different disks on the same host), modified separately, and then brought up to date by propagating the changes in each replica to the other. If your files are already pushing the limits of FAT32, your unison operation may abort. You can start the GUI from Applications -> Accessories -> Unison. Unfortunately, neither will build out of the box under OS X 10.8, Mountain Lion (and possibly under earlier OS X versions as well). Toby Johnson has contributed a detailed chroot min-HOWTO describing how to do this. If the username and password are accepted, you will be presented with a dos prompt for your server. 2. NFS-mounting the replicas is fine, as long as the local network is fast enough. The .bat file trick works, though, because it runs command.com and then invokes the .bat file. 7) verify that unison will run on your system by opening a dos prompt and running the shortened executable with a command line option of "-version" (I would type "unisont -version"). If several versions of Unison are present, one cannot predict which one will be launched. To my knowledge, this is not the case with Red Hat and Fedora. 6) copy the windows text-based executable to a place where it can be run. 3.1 Downloading Unison In order to synchronize them, Unison should first not ignore .DS_Store files, and second import the Spotlight information for files in a directory whose .DS_Store has been modified. To begin, once Unison is installed, you can start it in GUI mode by executing unison. Unison is a file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows. A sample .prf file would look as follows: Of course, you can substitute an IP address for the domain name. Unison-gtk it’s an handy gui for Unison, so i suggest to install it. Unfortunately, in the present version of unison the window will appear whether you're using ssh or not. I used the following command line: Remember that I renamed the Unison executable to unisont.exe on both the server and the client so that it would be easier to work with. 2. 5. Recent versions of Unison work well on OS X, including support for (Thanks in particular to Ben Willmore for huge improvements to the latter!). ssh: unison_win32-gtkui.exe: no address associated with hostname. I chose the latter so I wouldn't have to worry about remembering to upgrade Unison in two locations later on. It also assumes that the Unison command line binary is installed on the server. Another layer of encryption doesn't add anything of value. These instructions assume that the SSH server is already setup and functioning correctly. This lets him control the attributes of the command window, making it small and gray and centering the passphrase request. It looks like the new Cygwin DLL still has the bug, but the Cygwin setup program only lets you downgrade one version--now you can choose between 1.5.11 and 1.5.12, both of which break Unison.). You will tell Putty itself (via the Session screen) the host name (or host ip address) and the port number, along with the protocol (ssh). So just leave it in. Run the Unison gui and create a new pair. He is hosting it, as well as instruction for compilation, on his web site. This list contains a total of 25+ apps similar to Unison. Other machines that you synchronize with can get along just fine with the textual version. Also, it may be possible to tell spotlight never to index a folder by making the name end in ".noindex" For example, you could create in /Users/Shared/ a folder named Downloads.noindex and tell Firefox to store downloads there. Now works like a charm, secure yet convenient. Unison is a cross-platform music production studio. You can put the .exe anywhere; I have mine on my desktop. To operate in text-mode, use unison -ui text. Where I have typed mypassword, use your password. i.e. 8. Here is a test profile that I used successfully, which I named profiletest.prf: Where I typed remoteipaddress you can enter either the ip address of the server (e.g., 158.130.66.9) or a host name that windows can locate (e.g., myserver). You probably want the GTK+ gui version. Thanks to Michael McDougall for this answer. (Everyone agrees it is highly desirable, even if we don't know what it really does.) Of course, you might want to use a slightly more narrow name pattern... find . Implementations of the FAT32 filesystem may have limitations not only on the lengths of individual file names, but also the length of full path names of the file (160 characters, I think?). Run Unison. It allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or different disks on the same host), modified separately, and then brought up to date by propagating the changes in each replica to the other. This is a reliable source and is even linked to from the Unison project page. I can verify that it doesn't work without it. As described in the Unison manual, there are two Mac GUIs: UISTYLE=macnew and UISTYLE=macnew09. Is this a problem for … List updated: 12/27/2020 9:42:00 AM "Unison -server -auto" runs this command on the Linux server after connecting, which then talks to the local instance of Unison and makes all of that magic synchronization stuff happen. 2) add an environment variable named HOME if one doesn't already exist and point it to a directory that you might want to use someday as the root path when doing relative addressing. The macnew GUI could probably be revived without too much work, but you'll need to check it out yourself. Roots are native filesystem paths; the others are root-relative. Your command-line unison did not crash, it worked fine. These files --- in particular, files with names like .FBCLockFolder and .FBCIndex --- should be ignored by adding these lines to your profile: Some more items you may want to ignore (The wiki may wrap big lines below, so unwrap so everything after "ignore = " is on just one line): Spotlight (10.4+) and TimeMachine (10.5+) running in background can slow down your mac, and you may want to temporarily disable them during a big sync. -P 8000 tells it we want port 8000. Hi everybody, I'd like to provide some feedback to the developers regarding the preliminary unicode support in unison trunk. Graphic routing help system: Right-Click on a module in the OSC routing diagram lets a cross-hair apear, to show you where this module is located in the GUI; Unique New Modmatrix System: 'Drag and Drop' creation of ModMatrix entries. The answer is to download the dependencies and include the gtk bin directory in your path. Downgrading to DLL version 1.5.10-3 usually solves the problem. 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