Re: rdist as root?

["Larry 'Daffy' Daffner" <vizzie@airmail.net>]

Dirk Luetjens writes:
-> 
-> How can I invoke a rdist command as root to distribute the /usr/local/
-> tree to the other computers in the network?

First, make a file "distfile", which will look something like:

=====
MACHINES = ( machine-a machine-b machine-c )
FILES    = ( /usr/local )

${FILES} -> ${MACHINES};
	 install ;
======

Save it as, say, /etc/distfile, and then just rdist -f /etc/distfile

HTH

-Larry

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