Re: problem on windows XP

[Shachar S. <sh...@li...>]

Julian Pace Ross wrote:

> Hi,
> First of all well done for the great idea for this project.

Thanks.

> I downloaded the windows binaries, (wont be able to try on Linux till
> I get home this evening).
> I am having problems running it from the command line... whatever
> arguments I give it, the program crashes and I get the
> usual Microsoft "this program has a problem and will be closed" message.
> This even happens if I just run "rsyncrypto" at the command line.
> The only way I got some outout was with "rsyncrypto -h", but
> otherwise, arguments or no arguments, the program crashes.
> I just downloaded ver 0.17 .zip file, and tried to run it...
> Am I doing something wrong?

Well, yes, but it's not entirely your fault.

There is a known bug that causes rsyncrypto to GPF if it is not given a
correct public or private key. The version currently in CVS at least
special cases the empty argument list case, but not the one released for
Windows. Sorry.

So unless you give it all four mandatory arguments, with a valid public
key file as the fourth, it will, indeed, barf on you. Sorry.

Generating a correct public key is explained in the man page. I'm afraid
you'll need openssl for that, however.

I hope I helped,
          Shachar

>
> Cheers
> Julian
>
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