I do this on a regular (nightly!) basis - my script does the rsync and
then just runs an ssh to run the remote script. Not quite the same thing
as having the rsync daemon do it, but quite powerful.
On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Wrieth, Henry wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I primarily use rsync to update remote hosts when source files are edited.
> This means from one host, I upload to many rsync daemons listening on those
> remote hosts. This is much easier for me than running a daemon on the
> source and executing pulls on all the remote hosts.
>
> My problem is that I often want to execute post-distribution scripts on the
> endpoints (daemons) such as 'bounce_the_server'. This is similar to
> Interwoven's OpenDeploy feature "deploy_and_run". It seems trivial to do
> this when running rsync over rsh or ssh since we already have .rhosts trust
> to run rsync itself and thus can run other rsh commands. But when running
> in client-server mode there would need to be a
> '--execute=/path/to/script.sh' Option to do this.
>
> Has anybody thought about or working on this type of functionality?
>
> Regards,
>
> Henry Wrieth
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