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From: gbuchanan@on.sympatico.ca (Gardner Buchanan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Sync files on two FreeBSD boxes
Date: 10 Mar 1997 23:33:02 GMT
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In article <01bc2c5e$946f4780$987ac4ce@butch>,
	"Butch Evans" <butche@sheltonlink.com> writes:
> I have two FreeBSD machines.  What I want to do is update a file on machine
> 1 from a shell script on machine 2.

Depending on what exactly you're trying to do, rdist(1) might help.
Rdist is a program to maintain identical copies of files over multiple
hosts.  It preserves the owner, group, mode, and mtime of files if possi-
ble and can update programs that are executing.  Rdist reads commands
from distfile to direct the updating of files and/or directories.

good luck,

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Gardner Buchanan    <gbuchanan@sympatico.ca>
Ottawa, ON