Release GRsync

[mcobit]

Here is GRsync:


http://www.opbyte.it/grsync

Get the PND here:


http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/pandora.cgi?0,0,0,0,115,340


This PND includes rsync:


http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rsync

 

[Mash]

Great! Thank you!


I use this already on my Desktop and Netbook, and now i can even keep some directories on my Pandora and my Desktop-PC in sync!

 

[mcobit]

Please let us know, if it works as desired.

 

[Mash]

I've tried it, it works great for me.


- local syncing (eg. from one sd-card to another, or usb-stick to sd-card) works out-of-the-box


- remote syncing: to make this work with my setup (rsync called by ssh(d), as default by my Debian Squeeze-Desktop-PC), it required a little bit of work, because Angstrom seems to have no "ssh-askpass"-binary in the "dropbear"- or one of the "openssh"-packages.


The following steps were needed (WARNING: do this only, if you're know what you are doing!):


Step 1) remove dropbear and install openssh (as root, or use sudo)

opkg --force-depends dropbear

opkg install openssh

Step 2) as the user, who will be using grsync: generate a ssh-key on the pandora using ssh-keygen (from openssh) without any password and copy/append the resulting public-key to the remote-pc's ssh-"authorized_keys"-file.


Now it's possible to use password-less ssh from pandora to remote-pc and (g)rsyncing to remote-pc using ssh works perfect aswell.

 

[mcobit]

Nice to hear, maybe it would be an option to include openssh into the pnd, but that would add some Megabytes.

 

[Mash]

Nice to hear, maybe it would be an option to include openssh into the pnd, but that would add some Megabytes.

I don't think that would help, because the only "problem" is a missing "ssh-askpass" for the pandora-os.


Maybe someone can port a "ssh-askpass"-binary to the pandora?


Forgot to mention: i did not try syncing to a remote-pc running rsync in daemon mode or using rsh (not the ssh-variant), so that might aswell work out-of-the-box!