Hi all, Reading the "Directory services" part of the FAQ[0] I can't help the feeling that rdist(1) is missing from the list of file synchronisation tools - reasons below:
- rsync, albeit very popular, is an external port, - rdist is available in base (and BSD-derived), - rdist's sole purpose is remote file distribution. I'd even go as far as removing all the other ones from the list as rdist(1) already uses both cron(8) and ssh(1) to do its job - I don't feel too strongly about it, though :^) What do others think? [0] https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq10.html#Dir.available Regards, Raf Index: faq/faq10.html =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/www/faq/faq10.html,v retrieving revision 1.271 diff -u -p -r1.271 faq10.html --- faq/faq10.html 8 Aug 2017 19:15:57 -0000 1.271 +++ faq/faq10.html 9 Sep 2017 09:35:09 -0000 @@ -354,6 +354,7 @@ daemon provides the latter. <p> For some applications, simply synchronizing a small number of configuration files among a group of machines using tools like +<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/rdist";>rdist(1)</a>, <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/cron";>cron(8)</a>, <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/scp";>scp(1)</a> or <tt>rsync</tt> (available from ports) constitutes an easy and robust alternative
