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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!cantor.edge.net.au!news.teragen.com.au!news.access.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-feed4.bbnplanet.com!newshost.fiu.edu!usenet.cs.fiu.edu!usenet.ufl.edu!usenet.cise.ufl.edu!usenet From: jfh@cise.ufl.edu (James F. Hranicky) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Sync files on two FreeBSD boxes Date: 11 Mar 1997 16:14:58 -0500 Organization: UF Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering Lines: 20 Sender: jfh@tick.cise.ufl.edu Message-ID: <8k7mjennal.fsf@tick.cise.ufl.edu> References: <01bc2c5e$946f4780$987ac4ce@butch> NNTP-Posting-Host: tick.cise.ufl.edu X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36937 comp.unix.questions:96788 "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. The file is a text file. Is this > enough information, or should I try to be more specific? Any help will be > greatly appreciated. Check out rdist...the latest versions even work with ssh. ftp://usc.edu/pub/rdist/rdist-6.1.3.tar.gz We run rdist nightly from a cron job here at CISE to keep our machines in sync. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | Jim Hranicky, Senior SysAdmin UF/CISE Department | | E314E CSE Building Phone (904) 392-1057 | | jfh@cise.ufl.edu http://www.cis.ufl.edu/~jfh | ----------------------------------------------------------------------