From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jun 15 18: 6:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.reppep.com (www.reppep.com [64.81.19.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F05837B40A for ; Sat, 15 Jun 2002 18:06:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [64.81.19.109] (g4.reppep.com [64.81.19.109]) by mail.reppep.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EAA917C11; Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:08:27 -0400 (EDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: pepper@mail.reppep.com Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <044001c214c1$80244720$0a05a8c0@ooe.kmjeuro.com> References: <044001c214c1$80244720$0a05a8c0@ooe.kmjeuro.com> Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 21:05:00 -0400 To: "Karl M. Joch" From: Chris Pepper Subject: Re: config file distribution to remote servers. CVS? Cc: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 1:07 AM +0200 02/6/16, Karl M. Joch wrote: >i searched lot of archives and was reading the man pages of cvs/cvsup. i >need a way to central manage the config files and optionally the installed >ports/files for about 60 servers (4.4-4.6) which i manage. ~50% of them are >somewhere in europe the rest is local here. would like to have at least >encrypted authentication, even better would be encrypted transfer. at the >moment this stuff runs nightly via authenticated https, but i would like to >reduce the traffic and only distribute changed files. the actual running >script i made for sure checks some things to not transfer to much at the >moment, but there must be a better way. is there anything better then >cvs/cvsup or should i go with these ones? till now i am not really sure >about the cvs authentication. in one part of the man page authentication is >described and in another parts it is mentioned that there is no >authentication. i would like to build up a tree like Any reason you can't use rsync? Chris Pepper -- Chris Pepper: Rockefeller University: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message