Backup Central

"David Kempe" <dave < at > solutionsfirst.com.au>
wrote the following on Mon, 5 Jan 2004 17:49:41 +1100

as you can see /bin/sh.exe needs to be in the root of c: for it to
work. it creates it and deletes it afterwards, which is fine but not
really great if you already have a nice c:\bin\sh.exe you like. so,
does anyone know how to pass to rdiff-backup a different location
for /bin/sh ?

The window/cygwin specific stuff is lost on me, but I find this part
surprising. As far as I know, rdiff-backup doesn't use /bin/sh at
all. Occasionally it has to spawn a process like 'mknod', but it
doesn't use system() for that, so I don't see why /bin/sh would be
required. Maybe it's a python thing.


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Ben Escoto

Ben Escoto wrote:
The window/cygwin specific stuff is lost on me, but I find this part
surprising. As far as I know, rdiff-backup doesn't use /bin/sh at
all. Occasionally it has to spawn a process like 'mknod', but it
doesn't use system() for that, so I don't see why /bin/sh would be
required. Maybe it's a python thing.


well that probably answers the question.
I think I can make the cygwin registry keys work for me.
might conflict with existing cygwin installs however.
I really need to find out how to specify the cygwin root (/) with an
evironment variable not in the registry.

thanks

dave