Problems using rdist
John Ahearn
ahearn at cds2050.cadence.com
Fri Aug 3 07:24:54 AEST 1990
I was hoping someone might be able to help me with a particular
problem I am having, my apologies if this is the wrong bb for this type
of question.
I am using rdist on a Sun Sparc 1+ under SunOS 4.0.3. I am trying
to get rdist to update my local disk with a directory structure located on
a server. I have used the following distfile (copied almost exactly from
the example given in the rdist man pages).
HOSTS=(root at cds2050)
FILES=(/server/cds/4.0)
${FILES} -> ${HOSTS}
install -R /cds/4.0;
${FILES} :: /cds/4.0
notify ahearn at cds2050 ;
cds2050 is my machine, of which a server partition (/server) is mounted.
Unfortunately rdist does not seem to like distributing software that is mounted
on one partition onto another. So I ran this rdist file from another Sparc
on the network. It seems to work, it recognizes the files that need to be
copied, and it takes a long time thinking, it just doesn't do the actual copy.
Anybody know what's wrong here? Is the fact that this partition mounted on
my machine a problem for it? Is there a better way to do this?
Thanks in advance for the help.
John Ahearn
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