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- Path: sparky!uunet!nestroy.wu-wien.ac.at!awiwuw11!rony
- Organization: Wirtschaftsuniversitaet Wien, Vienna, Austria
- Date: Tuesday, 15 Dec 1992 22:49:34 CET
- From: FLATSCHER Rony <RONY@awiwuw11.wu-wien.ac.at>
- Message-ID: <92350.224934RONY@awiwuw11.wu-wien.ac.at>
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
- Subject: IBM's "rsh" still broken, what's the story ?
- Lines: 36
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- A couple of months ago someone posted in this group that IBM's "rsh" of
- TCP/IP would not work properly.
-
- At our site we are trying to backup the OS/2-machines using GTAK's tar,
- which even backups extended attributes. As the present implementation of
- this GNU tar does not allow utilizing a remote tape via IBM's TCP/IP (A.
- Kaiser told me today in a note, that the implementation is 4 to 6 months
- away, at least), I tried to follow K.U. Rommel's advice to pipe the
- OS/2-tar-output via "rsh" to the tape in question, which resides on a Unix-
- machine. He mentioned problems in respect to IBM's "rsh".
-
- Guess what, "rsh" still does not work (have TCP/IP 1.2.1, CSD UN29511). We
- get the SYS1805 ("The process tried to write to a nonexistent pipe.") error
- (US version of OS/2 plus golden SP).
-
- What is the story with this issue? The developers should be aware of this
- problem for months now and in the latest CSD for the base-kit the problem
- still is not fixed ?? This is upsetting !
-
- Being on the issue of bugs. The present NFSD-implementation (CSD 1822) is still
- useless. In order to get our OS/2 machines backed up to the Unix-streamers we
- tried to attach all OS/2-drives via NFS, which works o.k. but still is not
- fast. But restoring from the Unix-streamers to the attached OS/2 drives is
- aggravating, timeouts, slow-motion writes etc. It is simply useless!
-
- So what do IBMers suggest ? We desperately need a possibility to backup our
- OS/2 machines onto Unix-streamer tapes ! Now. Including extended attributes.
-
- What about FTP, Inc.? We used to use the DOS-implementation, which had a tar
- supplied, back in the DOS-days. Does their TCP/IP-implementation for OS/2
- allow for backing up and restoring OS/2-machines on Unix-streamer tapes ?
- If so, what about extended attributes?
-
- If so, we contemplate switching to that product.
-
- ---rony
-