IRIX and Software

Hello,

I just recently aquired my first SGI system, an O2:



As this is my first system I am a complete novice with IRIX. Therefore, I apologize if my questions are silly but I have been doing my best to learn how this system works. One of the many hurdles I have come across is attempting to acquire the nekoware files via rsync.

Here is what happens:

IRIS 1# /usr/nekoware/bin/rsync -az --progress \
nekoware.dustytech.net/::nekoware /usr/nekoware
building file list ...
rsync: link_stat "/nekoware.dustytech.net/::nekoware" failed: No such file or directory (2)
0 files to consider

sent 29 bytes received 20 bytes 98.00 bytes/sec
total size is 0 speedup is 0.00
rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(892) [sender=2.6.8]

I do not understand why it cannot connect when there is no issue with the mirror.

Thank you for any help!

Hi I have no idea about anything SGI or IRIX but this looks wrong. One I think you're supposed to use something like



while you have



The message you get suggests it's looking on your local system for /nekoware.dustytech.net and that would explain it.

On the remote chance this might help...because I am almost always wrong about anything UNIX-related but since nobody answered yet I tried anyway. What bravery!

Welcome to Nekochan, LgnLndstrm!

bluecode: Thanks for stepping up, that's what immediately stood out to me as well.

LgnLndstrm: If removing that extra colon doesn't work, have you made some basic connectivity checks - can you ping google.com from the O2 ? Can you reach Yahoo with Netscape/Mozilla? I see you already have nekoware's rsync installed, but did you download it with another machine, then transferred it to your O2? Or did you download it directly to the O2?

Bluecode and smj, thank you for your responses. After playing around a little the following ended up working:

/usr/nekoware/bin/rsync -az --progress \
nekoware.de::current /usr/nekoware

The files are currently downloading!

Hopefully this post can help anyone else trying to get nekoware on their system.

On the nekoware page it has "nekoware.dustytech.net/::nekoware" as the option for rsync; however, this evidently does not work. I ended up using a different mirror as shown above.

Glad you got it working. Another satisfied forum customer

smj, good eyeball on my post. Actually I left out the extra colon just from habit. I use rsync a lot. What was critical was the placement of the slash character. It has to come after the colon(s). In his example he had it before and I think that led to the shell expanding it to a local path that didn't exist. That was the error message. Nothing to do with the extra ":" afaik.

The format for scp and rsync is something like



or



I never used the :: but it does mean something according to the rsync man page.

Bluecode, Batting 1/10,000 on UNIX issues and emboldened greatly by an elusive and unexpected tiny measure of success, however ephemeral or insignificant it may well have been.