On May 18, 2005, at 3:27 PM, Tim Howe wrote:
rdist6 as root, it ignores the -P /usr/bin/ssh flag an tries to use
rcmd directly, which fails since my target systems do not have that
service running.
Might I suggest looking into rsync? It has excellent support for ssh
(and in modern versions even defaults to using it for transport)
and in
general I've found it more amenable to scripting and sensible defaults
than rdist. I and colleagues had excellent luck at a past employer of
mine porting rdist-based applications to rsync for additional
Any suggestion on how to emulate the 'special' trigger in rdist where
it runs a command on the remote host only if a matching file was
updated? I'd rather not run an expensive database rebuild if the
source file wasn't altered.
Thanks!
Vivek Khera, Ph.D.
+1-301-869-4449 x806
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