Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 11:10:32 -0400 From: Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rdist6 won't let root use ssh transport Message-ID: <C02EC75B-C21C-4179-BA56-1FCCCA36708F@khera.org> In-Reply-To: <87y8acs5at.fsf@beaker.data-secure.net> References: <A8D01A9B-095B-446A-B1A3-86197A669D7B@khera.org> <87y8acs5at.fsf@beaker.data-secure.net>
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On May 18, 2005, at 3:27 PM, Tim Howe wrote: >> rdist6 as root, it ignores the -P /usr/bin/ssh flag an tries to use >> rcmd directly, which fails since my target systems do not have that >> service running. >> > > Might I suggest looking into rsync? It has excellent support for ssh > (and in modern versions even defaults to using it for transport) > and in > general I've found it more amenable to scripting and sensible defaults > than rdist. I and colleagues had excellent luck at a past employer of > mine porting rdist-based applications to rsync for additional Any suggestion on how to emulate the 'special' trigger in rdist where it runs a command on the remote host only if a matching file was updated? I'd rather not run an expensive database rebuild if the source file wasn't altered. Thanks! Vivek Khera, Ph.D. +1-301-869-4449 x806
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