error in scp - fixed. httpd config menu?

[Rick Stevens]

Harold Hallikainen wrote:
>>Harold Hallikainen wrote:
>>
>>>I'm using scp to copy the /home directory from my old server to the new
>>>one. It runs fine for a while, then I get this error:
>>>
>>>scp: /home/harold/public_html/FCC/FccRules/CiteFind/0001
>>>protocol error: expected control record
>>>
>>>The command I'm running is:
>>>scp -r 192.168.1.8:/home /home
>>>
>>>What can I do to reliably get this copied over?
>>
>>Hmmmm, that's interesting.  Have you done an "ls -la" and an "lsattr"
>>on that file?  Is it a regular or special file (e.g. pipe/fifo or
>>device)?  I suspect it's a special file, and scp can't deal with
>>those (nor can most copy utilities).
>>
>>You really should look at using rsync to synchronize your systems.
>>That's what it was designed for and it knows how to deal with special
>>files, symlinks and the like.
> 
> 
> 
> rsync worked great! Thanks!

Glad to hear it.  You'll also find that rsync is faster than scp, as
it only transmits the differences between the machines, regardless of
what they are.  So, a two-byte change in a gigabyte file will NOT
copy the entire gigabyte, but rather only the bytes that changed.
Neat, eh?  Can save SERIOUS time (we have to keep about 3TB of data
synched ourselves between four storage arrays and we use rsync to do
it).

> Next problem... I've never been able to get the menu driven httpd config
> in RH8 to work. I'm now trying it on FC4. I've only messed with it a bit,
> but it LOOKS like when I set up named virtural hosts, they work, but my
> default page shows up as an error page saying I need to request it with
> https. I have not (yet) enabled https on anything. On RH8, I finally went
> in and edited the config files myself. Is there documentation on this menu
> driven congif editor? Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? Time to start
> editing it by hand?

I've never used the menu-based config.  I have an inherent distrust of
those kinds of tools when it comes to text-based config files--simply
because of the complexity of parsing the file and coercing it to live
within the fixed parameters of the editor.  I wish I could help more.
Maybe someone else on the list has some experience with it.
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