From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jul 27 10:25:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5B2A637C143 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 10:25:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie) Received: from walton.maths.tcd.ie by salmon.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP id ; 27 Jul 2000 18:25:46 +0100 (BST) To: stable@freebsd.org Cc: dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie, dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie Subject: Re: rdist and pam In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 27 Jul 2000 09:15:59 PDT." <200007271615.JAA23149@vashon.polstra.com> X-Request-Do: Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 18:25:46 +0100 From: David Malone Message-ID: <200007271825.aa11185@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > CVSup can also be used for general-purpose mirroring of arbitrary > files from one place to another. It preserves hard links, symlinks, > device nodes, etc. Indeed - we did look at it as an option. Cvsup is dead nice, but I don't think it did what we wanted. 1) We already had ssh for authentication and it wasn't clear if there was a way to get cvsup to use ssh for authentication. (It's pretty obvious how to get it to work for transport). 2) Cvsupd comes with warnings about not running it as root, which we'd need to. (We use rdist for cloning /usr and /usr/local complete with non-world-readable files). 3) I wasn't sure if you can adjust what gets pushed out to clients from a central config file. We have per machine exceptions. 4) It doesn't read distfiles ;-) While I'm thinking of it, I also noticed a problem with cvsup's GUI. I use tvtwm as a window manager and use ctrl+arrow keys to move around my desktop. However this doesn't work if the mouse is pointing into the cvsup window. I presume this is a modula 3 problem, but I thought you might know what was going on. David. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message