X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 17:12:44 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: how to detect if Windows or Linux is running? Message-ID: <20051201221244.GA4009@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 05:07:15PM -0500, H. S. wrote: >Hi, > >I have installed Cygwin on a Windows XP computer to get rsync and ssh >running so that I can backup my important data on a Linux computer on my >home LAN. The idea is to use rsync to make rolling backups of my Windows >data automatically, say, once or twice a day and to retain last N >backups (N most probably going to be 10~20). > >But the problem I had not foreseen is that I dual boot this Windows >machine between Windows XP and Debian. How should I gracefully let the >rsync server know if this computer is running Linux or XP? > >I know that if the computer is running Linux, the rsync server will >never find /cygdrive/... folders and will just quite with an error. But >this is not 'clean', it will result in mails to the rsync server root >about the error. > >Suggestions? Why not just use mount to mount things similarly on the cygwin side and the linux side? cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/