Server start up

Asked by bigal50

I maybe missing something but in looking over the instructions at Softpedia I didn't see any reference to starting the actual Percy server. I have to laptops I would like to keep in sync using a PC as the server. Here is my current config file for one laptop.

[code]# persy configuration file

# general configuration
[general]
# default name and mail for a commit. the default name and mail is fine and is
# only interessting if you want to sync multiple machines. you can set the name
# on every machine different and get a nice git history
name = allen-laptop
mail = default

# the prefered gui git browser. possible values are gitk and qgit. if you want
# more, mail me.
prefgitbrowser = gitk

# use small fortune lines in the git commit description (True/False)
fortune = False

# configurations for the local backup
[local]
# the local sleep delay time in secounds. a backup is only done after this time
# after the last file action
sleep = 5

# a coma seperated list auf the files and directories, persy is syncing
watched =/home/allen/Percy,

# the maximal allowed filesize for the synced files in bytes
maxfilesize = None

# a regular expression to match against every file. matches are excuded
exclude = "",

# configuration for a remote backup/sync
[remote]
# backup and sync to a remote host (False/True)
use_remote = True

# the interval in which a sync happens in seconds
sleep = 300

# the host adress of the remote server as ip or name
hostname = "192.168.0.101"

# the absolute path on the remote server to the git repository
path = "/home/allen/Persy"
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Dennis Schwertel (tmassassin) said :
#1

hi,
this is easier than it sounds (i know the documentation is not very clear about this).
a server is not necessary on your pc. the communication is over ssh and git. you need git installed on your pc and an ssh server running. both clients must be allowed to connect to the server with ssh public-key authentication and both clients must use the same path on the remote server. that should be it. no extra server software on the server.

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Dennis Schwertel (tmassassin) said :
#2

on and i am going to update the readme according to this. you can take a look at the recent readme at http://github.com/kinkerl/persy

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