why does this command not work?

[matthew mills]

I am trying to copy a directory structure from one HPUX server to another HPUX server. it says it cannot "stat" the file??

remsh ngbva find /release/ -depth -print | cpio -pd /release

[john korterman]

Hi,
does /release exist? I gues that could be the problem.

regards,
John K.

[Mark Grant]

Because your pipe is happeining on the machine you are running the "remsh" from.

try

remsh ngbva 'find /release/ -depth -print | cpio -pd /release'

[Pete Randall]

Matthew,

I believe it's usually a permissions issue. Whoever is running the command simply doesn't have permission to read the file.


Pete

[matthew mills]

Yes there is a directory called "/release" on both servers and Mark's idea did not work, it made a copy of the release directory within the same /release directory. maybe a diff command would be better. I tryed the "dd" command but it would only take single files. please help.

[Hoefnix · Accepted solution]

Hi,

if its a permision problem next won't work, but you could try to use next to copy directories(+structure) from one system to the other
rcp -r -p ngbva:/release /release

HTH,
Peter

[matthew mills]

I am executing this as root and I can do single files, but not a directory structure.

[Hoefnix]

do you mean that you only can do single files using rcp?

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi,

Try something like this,

# find /source | cpio -ov | remsh server " cd /copy ; cpio -idvum "

Robert-Jan

[John Carr_2]

Hi the rcp command should work fine for this

on the source server

cd /release

rcp -rp * destination_server:/release

John.

[Ryan McKlveen]

if you can remsh to the host - use:
rcp -r -p ngbva:/release /release
or
scp if ssh installed.

Ryan