Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 11:34:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu> To: Tony Kimball <alk@Think.COM> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: why so many ways to stay in sync? Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960514112729.14170G-100000@skipper.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <199605140455.XAA20633@compound.Think.COM>
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On Mon, 13 May 1996, Tony Kimball wrote: > > Doesn't ctm obsolete sup? No, not at all. Ctm is for folks that want to stay updated via mail, and sup is for users with direct net connectivity. Ctm is somewhat more limited in that you can only get updates for certain defined file collections, that are having ctm scripts run on them. Sup can be configured to build more selective collections (you can customize what file collections you want). With sup, you can wipe out portions of your archive, sup will see that, and rebuild it for you. Ctm won't do that, if you wipe some of it out, you have to start from scratch and rebuild it all. Sup compares what you have with what its trying to maintain, and rebuilds intelligently, but ctm is a one way street, with no feedback on what you need, just on changing what you have. Ctm is more conservative, and sends diffs, while sup sends whole files. As you can see, they are different, they serve different audiences. > > ========================================================================== Chuck Robey chuckr@eng.umd.edu, I run FreeBSD-current on n3lxx + Journey2 Three Accounts for the Super-users in the sky, Seven for the Operators in their halls of fame, Nine for Ordinary Users doomed to crie, One for the Illegal Cracker with his evil game In the Domains of Internet where the data lie. One Account to rule them all, One Account to watch them, One Account to make them all and in the network bind them.
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