From owner-freebsd-current Sat Aug 3 12:55:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA06464 for current-outgoing; Sat, 3 Aug 1996 12:55:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vector.jhs.no_domain (slip139-92-42-176.ut.nl.ibm.net [139.92.42.176]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA06438 for ; Sat, 3 Aug 1996 12:55:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jhs@localhost) by vector.jhs.no_domain (8.7.5/8.6.9) id VAA19947; Sat, 3 Aug 1996 21:54:39 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Sat, 3 Aug 1996 21:54:39 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199608031954.VAA19947@vector.jhs.no_domain> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: rdist to freefall - fails with: version numbers don't match From: "Julian H. Stacey" Reply-To: "Julian H. Stacey" Organization: Vector Systems Ltd. Address: Holz Strasse 27d, 80469 Munich, Germany Phone: +49.89.268616 Fax: +49.89.2608126 Web: http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/ Mailer: EXMH 1.6.7, PGP available Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Running `rdist' from my home box FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT #0: Sun Jul 7 13:53:04 MSZ 1996 jhs@vector:/usr2/src/sys/compile/VECTOR to freefall FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE #0: Wed Jul 17 08:04:27 PDT 1996 davidg@freefall.freebsd.org:/f/src/sys/compile/FREEFALL Fails like this: updating host freefall.cdrom.com rdist: connection failed: version numbers don't match rdist: got unexpected input:rdist: Crdist: Vrdist: Srdist: .... my same home box to 2 other boxes out on the net Succeed: gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Dec 14 17:51:20 1995 kuku@blues.physik.rwth-aachen.de:/usr/src/sys/compile/GIL blues.physik.rwth-aachen.de: FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT #0: Sat Jun 22 11:09:53 MET DST 1996 kuku@isdn-kukulies.dialup.rwth-aachen.de:\ /usr/src/sys/compile/BLUES my home current box to my home 2.1.0 box also succeeds. I've just done a cd src/usr.bin/rdist ; make ; make install, doesnt help, still fails, admittedly i havent reinstalled my include/ in a few weeks This is the first day Ive ever used rdist, seems a nice tool, shame it fails to freefall though, unfortunately I cant test it on thud, as my login there disappeared time of the last crash, way back when. Seems I'd better go read the rdist source (docmd.c), meantime this is a heads up, & comments are welcome, Thanks :-) Julian -- Julian H. Stacey jhs@freebsd.org http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/