Larry Daffner writes:
>
> Dirk Luetjens writes:
> ->
> -> How can I invoke a rdist command as root to distribute the /usr/local/
> -> tree to the other computers in the network?
>
> First, make a file "distfile", which will look something like:
>
> =====
> MACHINES = ( machine-a machine-b machine-c )
> FILES = ( /usr/local )
>
> ${FILES} -> ${MACHINES};
> install ;
> ======
>
> Save it as, say, /etc/distfile, and then just rdist -f /etc/distfile
>
I forgot to say that the problem is when rdist trys to login into a
remote machine using rsh. This is denied for root. The solution was to
have a .rhosts file in the root's homedirectory.
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