From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 13 16:54: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from luke.cpl.net (luke.cpl.net [192.216.136.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D799A14ED4 for ; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 16:54:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shawn@megadeth.org) Received: from megadeth.org (gw2-fw.redlands.cpl.net [209.203.102.34] (may be forged)) by luke.cpl.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA21302 for ; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 16:56:13 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <38051C72.88125DE1@megadeth.org> Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 16:57:38 -0700 From: Shawn Ramsey X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Rdist Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am trying to get rdist working, and it is working, except one thing. It will not run the "special" command. Here is my distfile : HOSTS = ( host1 ) FILES = ( /etc/master.passwd) ${FILES} -> ${HOSTS} install -R; special "/usr/sbin/pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd" ; That is the only way I could get special to run, otherwise it tells me syntax error. It gives no error, it just doesn't run the command. It copies the file fine. -- Windows 95 (win-DOH-z), n. A thirty-two bit extension and graphical shell to a sixteen bit patch to an eight bit operating system originally coded for a four bit microprocessor which was used in a PC built by a formerly two bit company that couldn't stand one bit of competition. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message