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From: Peter Wemm <peter@haywire.dialix.com>
To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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On Wed, 16 Aug 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> 
> Once you finish sendmail, could I possibly talk you into doing rdist?
> The FreeBSD patches are in ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/incoming/rdist*
> as well as a pointer to the current sources (6.1.0?) from uci.edu.
> 
> 					Jordan

Funny you should ask.. I built up rdist-6.1.0 two days ago, and 
merged our bugfix with Deborah's FreeBSD printf changes...  I was 
going to ask if I could do it too.. :-)

Rdist-6.1 gets arounf the traditional security problem of running 
setuid-root, by opening a pipe to rsh.  This is unnecessary if you are 
*already* running as root, as you can do a rcmd() directly.  Much less 
CPU and context switches when updating 30 machines at once.. :-)

-Peter