[cfarm-users] rsync on AIX?

[David Edelsohn]

The intent is to keep the AIX installation pure so that it behaves like a
normal AIX system -- for better or worse.  It's the only way to ensure that
anything tested on the system behaves consistently for any normal user of a
package tested on the system.

The AIX OSS team have made an effort to segregate official AIX supported
packages and commands from FOSS packages and commands.  There are some
commands, like tar, sed, make, that conflict, and there are other commands
where AIX is trying to ensure that customers don't assume an incorrect
level of support because a command is in the normal AIX system namespace.

Thanks, David

On Sun, Aug 18, 2024 at 3:58 AM James Cloos via cfarm-users <
cfarm-users at lists.tetaneutral.net> wrote:

> >>>>> "JC" == James Cloos via cfarm-users <
> cfarm-users at lists.tetaneutral.net> writes:
>
> JC> Another thing to try:
> JC> Add /opt/freeware/bin/ to your PATH on the aix boxen.
> JC> ~/.profile ought to work.
>
> JC> I just tested and that seems enough.  On 110 I found a
> JC> ~/.bash_profile file and so used that.
>
> [SIGH]
>
> I should have checked closer.  110 is power but not aix;
> it has rsync in /usr/bin.
>
> And 119 already has:
>
>
> PATH=/opt/freeware/bin:/usr/bin:/etc:/usr/sbin:/usr/ucb:$HOME/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/sbin:.
>
> in ~/.profile.
>
> Appologies for the useless noise.
>
> The other thing to try is to add a symlink named ~/bin/rsync on every box,
> and then you can point --rsync-path to that on all of the cfarm boxen.
>
> At least the path will then be constant.
>
> -JimC
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