From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 26 00:17:44 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA25496 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 00:17:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [209.157.86.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA25481 for ; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 00:17:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.2/8.9.1) id AAA14444; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 00:17:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 00:17:33 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <199901260817.AAA14444@apollo.backplane.com> To: Peter Wemm Cc: "Russell L. Carter" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'cpdup' program, and question References: <199901260746.PAA05289@spinner.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG : :I personally would *love* it to go into /bin or /sbin. I have lost count :of the number of times that I've had to move trees with tar or cpio (and :cpio with -Hnewc to get the 32bit device numbers). If it handles flags :etc and does restarts, then even better! : :A tool like this will be far more useful than a stack of other things in :the tree. : :Cheers, :-Peter Yup, though caviat: cpdup doesn't use streams like tar, cpio, etc... it operates more like 'cp' in that it takes a source and destination path. We use it at BEST to maintain our 45+ FreeBSD boxes from a single template machine via NFS ( the one thing I used NFS for at BEST ). I'll put it up on my web page for review. Compile it up and run 'cpdup' without any arguments for help. http://www.backplane.com/FreeBSD/ Note: the MD5 support is brand new, I just added it tonight. -Matt Matthew Dillon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message