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From: peter@cyklop.volvo.se (peter hakanson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Rdist
Date: 12 Oct 1996 20:17:47 GMT
Organization: Volvo Corp.
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You got to have a proper .rhosts or hosts.equiv that
allows the user running rdist to access "host1.abc.com".
S. L. Chan (slechan@lynx.bc.ca) wrote:
: Hi there,
: I was trying to update a set of files under couple directories to other
: hosts on the network and I was trying to use rdist to do it.
: After go through the man pages and I write up a simple distfile and try.
: the distfile is something like:
: HOST = ( host1.abc.com )
: FILES = ( /usr/local/bin/test1 )
: ${FILES} -> ${HOST}
: However when I run it "rdist -f distfile" I got:
: updating host1.abc.com
: Permission denied
: I think I missed something but I cannot find the relevant info from the
: man pages. Could someone point me to the right direction?
: Thanks
: S.L. Chan
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