From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 30 6: 3:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F8E237B401 for ; Sat, 30 Nov 2002 06:03:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from lmtp1.absolight.com (lmtp1.absolight.com [212.43.217.36]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FE6D43EBE for ; Sat, 30 Nov 2002 06:03:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mat@mat.cc) Received: from cmantatzi.in.t-online.fr (cmantatzi.in.t-online.fr [213.44.126.228]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by lmtp1.absolight.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49FCF2CDA; Sat, 30 Nov 2002 15:03:05 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 15:03:05 +0100 From: Mathieu Arnold To: Giorgos Keramidas , bsd@xtremedev.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rsync of /usr/ports on local lan? Message-ID: <22642951.1038668585@cmantatzi.in.t-online.fr> In-Reply-To: <20021130135759.GC15073@gothmog.gr> References: <20021130061110.K19752-100000@Amber.XtremeDev.com> <20021130135759.GC15073@gothmog.gr> X-Mailer: Mulberry/3.0.0 (Win32) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --On samedi 30 novembre 2002 15:57 +0200 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2002-11-30 06:16, bsd@xtremedev.com wrote: >> Have a small network here of FreeBSD machines (-stable and -current). I >> have on my production FreeBSD machine setup an rsyncd via xinetd, and >> would like to rsync /usr/ports across to the other FreeBSD machines so I >> wouldn't have to crontab cvsup on all of them (thus putting more load on >> my limited bandwidth, and adding unnecessary load to the cvsup servers). >> Things appear to be working. However, I'm currently running the rsync >> commands on the client machines over ssh, which means I need ssh root >> access, on top of which using public key encryption (so I can crontab the >> rsync commands). Is there a better way to do this? > > I'd probably use NFS on the local network :-) > No need to 'sync' anything then. As I told him in private, NFS + setting WRKDIRPREFIX=/usr/portsobj or some partition with disk space to avoid doing all via nfs. -- Mathieu Arnold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message