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Date:      26 Jul 2000 23:48:21 +0200
From:      Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre@citeweb.net>
To:        Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: rdist and pam
Message-ID:  <ittsa7h6.fsf@gits.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: Vivek Khera's message of "Wed, 26 Jul 2000 10:21:44 -0400 (EDT)"
References:  <200007251902.MAA18524@freeway.dcfinc.com> <4s5delst.fsf@gits.dyndns.org> <14718.62456.823138.807215@onceler.kcilink.com>

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Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com> writes:

> >>>>> "CL" == Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre@citeweb.net> writes:
> 
> CL> "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com> writes:
> >> As I recall, Vivek Khera wrote:
> >> > Use rdist6 (from ports) with SSH as your transport.  You'll need to
> >> > install rdist6 on each system.
> >> 
> >> If you've got SSH built, you could use scp (secure copy).  It's
> >> easier to use than rdist.  You use it just like rcp, except it uses
> >> SHH for a secure connection.
> 
> CL> what about symlinks ? are they followed or copied ?
> 
> rdist makes the symlinks.  it duplicates your entire directory tree,
> including hard links.

I'm asking about scp which seems to be similar to rcp which is buggy about
symlinks (and even hardlinks I guess).

Cyrille.
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