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From: Gautam Gopalakrishnan <ggop@madras.dyndns.org>
To: Antoine Jacoutot <ajacoutot@lphp.org>
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Subject: Re: rdist to update some lines
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On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 12:47:41PM +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote:
> Hi :)
> 
> I'm actually using rdist for centralized management of certain files 
> (/etc/hosts, /etc/motd...).
> Is there a way to use rdist (or any other tools alike) too update a file on a 
> remote server instead of blindly copying the new file over ?
> What I mean is, for exemple, I would like to share some lines in 
> /etc/make.conf among my servers (but not the entire file), but all of them 
> aren't the same so I do not want /etc/make.conf to be the exact same on all 
> my boxes, only like 3 or 4 lines.
> Is there a way to do this ?

My guess is that you could include a file in make.conf which is
synced using rsync.

Gautam