I am testing a setup where NT boxes have FTP servers running on them and I will use sitecopy (available for NT and Unix) to mirror the files up to the servers. This should trigger timestamp changes and have Orion do its magic.
-Larry
-----Original Message-----
From: Koster, K.J. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 11:31 AM
To: Orion-Interest
Subject: RE: remote deployment, how?
Dear Daniele,
>
> Thers is no need to use the Orion's "-admin" option to deploy an
> application. I usually rely on the auto-deploy feature of Orion
> which trigger timestamp changes on the .ear file.
> A remote deployment is easy if you use the "rsync" utility
> (http://rsync.samba.org) that provides fast incremental file transfer
> over the network.
> Rsync mangle the file name until the trasfer is complete so there is
> non need to perform an additional rename of the file or a restart
> of the server.
>
I like the idea of using rsync. So obvious that I missed it completely.
Unfortunately I'm dealing with some non-UNIX development boxes, and rsync
does not seem to be available for those.
Kees Jan
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