[rdiff-backup-users] patch for plain tcp connection(for rdiff 1.0.4)

[catam]

Hi
I want that rdiff-backup connects direcly to a remote server using TCP 
so since this is not supported on client side I did a small patch(below)
On remote side just use inetd/xinetd/whatever like this:

#cat /etc/xinetd.d/rdiff-backup
service rdiff-backup
{
        socket_type     = stream
        protocol        = tcp
        wait            = no
        user            = root
        only_from       = 192.168.0.34
        server          = /usr/bin/rdiff-backup
        server_args     = --server --restrict-read-only /
        port            = 499
        disable         = no
        bind            = 192.168.0.1
}

on local side:
# rdiff-backup  --remote-schema "tcp:%s:499" 192.168.0.1::/etc backups/etc

if remote-schema do not start with tcp: then behaviour is unchaged

and the patch:
 diff -u SetConnections.py_bak  SetConnections.py
--- SetConnections.py_bak       2006-03-08 14:02:31.000000000 +0200
+++ SetConnections.py   2006-03-08 17:29:22.000000000 +0200
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@

 """

-import os, sys
+import os, sys, socket
 from log import Log
 import Globals, connection, rpath

@@ -129,7 +129,15 @@
        if not remote_cmd: return Globals.local_connection

        Log("Executing " + remote_cmd, 4)
-       stdin, stdout = os.popen2(remote_cmd)
+       a = remote_cmd.split(':')
+       if a[0] == "tcp":
+               s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
+               s.connect((a[1], int(a[2])))
+               stdin = stdout = s.makefile()
+               s.close
+       else:
+               stdin, stdout = os.popen2(remote_cmd)
+
        conn_number = len(Globals.connections)
        conn = connection.PipeConnection(stdout, stdin, conn_number)



catam