rdist

2001-04-25 Thread Renai LeMay
>I noticed on the Debian site there's a kit available to (apparently) roll >your own CD images by using rdist to maintain local copies, which you can >then use to lay out both a cd install image and network archive from which >you can do a network install and incremental pac

rdist as root

2001-02-22 Thread Erik van der Meulen
Hi, I would like to migrate to a new server. It seems like a good idea to use rdist to keep the various config files in synce between the machines. This works very well if I run rdist as ordunary user, but not as root. This is required to be able to work with files in /etc. I get 'Conne

root access for rdist

2000-09-10 Thread Erik van der Meulen
I need to use rdist to sync some system files from one machine to another. I am unable to access the second machine as root. I have made a .rhosts in the second machines /root dir and tried to put ALL: local in /etc/hosts.allow. Both machines are rather verbatim Debian 2.2 I assume root is

Rdist question

2000-07-24 Thread Andrew Kae
Hello everyone, I'm having a little trouble w/ distfiles for Rdist. I want to duplicate directory "web_site" from host "source" to host "target" in path /tmp on "target". I found I could do this by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ...] rdist -c web_site target

What happened to rdist?

1999-11-12 Thread Gary Hennigan
One other thing I've just noticed about my potato upgrade, rdist is no longer around. It used to be part of netstd, which was broken up, but I don't see a separate rdist package anywhere in potato. It didn't get orphaned did it? I realize rsync has much of the functionality, but

Re: Secure rdist?

1999-10-06 Thread Andreas Muck
Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >I know it must be an FAQ, but does there exist a secure replacement >for rdist, one which would not require having a /root/.rhosts file? You can use standard rdist over ssh (rdist -P ssh). Authentication can be either automatically (usin

Re: Secure rdist?

1999-10-06 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 11:59, Julian Gilbey wrote: > [Please Cc: me with replies!] > > I know it must be an FAQ, but does there exist a secure replacement > for rdist, one which would not require having a /root/.rhosts file? > Those things make me understandably paranoid. I&#

Secure rdist?

1999-10-06 Thread Julian Gilbey
[Please Cc: me with replies!] I know it must be an FAQ, but does there exist a secure replacement for rdist, one which would not require having a /root/.rhosts file? Those things make me understandably paranoid. I'm not quite sure what a secure replacement would look like though; wou

Re: rsh or ssh and rdist

1997-06-11 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Karl M. Hegbloom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On a related note, is there any way to make rdist use ssh? man rdist, look at the option for rsh path; replace the path to rsh with the path to ssh--they're functionally equivalent (although you might want to add parameters for compress

Re: rsh or ssh and rdist

1997-06-10 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
On a related note, is there any way to make rdist use ssh? -- Karl M. Hegbloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg Portland, OR USA Debian GNU 1.3 Linux 2.1.36 AMD K5 PR-133 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to

Re: rdist as root?

1996-11-20 Thread Dirk Luetjens
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

Re: rdist as root?

1996-11-20 Thread Larry 'Daffy' Daffner
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= ( /u

Re: rdist as root?

1996-11-19 Thread Ricardo Kleemann
I just did this. You'd have to set up root with permission for rsh by putting a .rhosts in the root home directory. Beware of security issues though... On Tue, 19 Nov 1996, Dirk Luetjens wrote: > > How can I invoke a rdist command as root to distribute the /usr/local/ > tre

rdist as root?

1996-11-19 Thread Dirk Luetjens
How can I invoke a rdist command as root to distribute the /usr/local/ tree to the other computers in the network? Dirk -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: rdist

1996-11-07 Thread Herbert Xu
Fundamental wrote: > > Does debian have rdist or the equivalent program? I checked the package > finder and found nothing. It's in my netstd 2.07-1. -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.1 is out! { http://www.debian.org/ } Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> { http:

rdist

1996-11-07 Thread Fundamental
Does debian have rdist or the equivalent program? I checked the package finder and found nothing. Thanks:) Sahua, - mIcHaEl ///\ The Australian Internet Company c-00 ISP par Excellence \ > http://www.electric-rain.net/ (mine) |\_- http://www.aic.net