From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jul 27 20:20:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from turtle.looksharp.net (cc360882-a.strhg1.mi.home.com [24.2.221.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A15B37B718 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 20:20:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bandix@looksharp.net) Received: from localhost (bandix@localhost) by turtle.looksharp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA59066; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 23:21:01 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bandix@looksharp.net) Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 23:21:01 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brandon D. Valentine" To: David Malone Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rdist and pam In-Reply-To: <200007271825.aa11185@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What you're doing sounds like a good candidate for help from http://www.infrastructures.org. It mentions cvsup in this role in the LISA '98 paper. Read it. On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, David Malone wrote: >> 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 > Brandon D. Valentine -- bandix at looksharp.net | bandix at structbio.vanderbilt.edu "Truth suffers from too much analysis." -- Ancient Fremen Saying To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message