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Name: rdist - Remote file distribution system
Version: 6.1.3
Author(s): Michael Cooper <MCooper@MagniComp.Com>
On the CD-ROM in: sysadm/rdist.tar
Ftp source: usc.edu:/pub/rdist/rdist.tar.gz
Size on the CD: 718 KB (uncompressed)
Description:
Rdist is a program to maintain identical copies of files over multiple
hosts. It preserves the owner, group, mode, and mtime of files if possi-
ble and can update programs that are executing. Rdist reads commands
from distfile to direct the updating of files and/or directories. If
distfile is `-', the standard input is used. If no -f option is
present, the program looks first for `distfile', then `Distfile' to use
as the input. If no names are specified on the command line, rdist will
update all of the files and directories listed in distfile. Otherwise,
the argument is taken to be the name of a file to be updated or the
label of a command to execute. If label and file names conflict, it is
assumed to be a label. These may be used together to update specific
files using specific commands.
-- Quoted from the manpage by Michael Cooper in the rdist 6.1
distribution.
This is version 6.1 of Rdist from USC. It is based on rdist from
4.3BSD (classic). It includes all fixes for all bugs known to the
CSRG Berkeley folks. It has been running at USC and numerous other
sites for some time now on a wide variety of platforms.
This version of rdist is not directly compatible with rdist
distributed with 4.3BSD and subsequent vendor releases, but does
indirectly provide full backward compatibility.
-- Quoted from README by Michael Cooper in the rdist 6.1 distribution.
Advertised architectures:
This version of rdist has been ported to most major and a number of
not so major platforms. The list below is only a partial list.
The complete list of supported platforms can be found by looking
at all the config/os-*.h files.
MACHINE TYPE OPERATING SYSTEM
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DEC MIPS Ultrix 4.2
DG AviiON DG/UX 5.4.x
HP 9000/300 HP/UX 7.05 (HP cc)
HP 9000/400 HP/UX 7.05 (HP cc)
HP 9000/700 HP/UX 8.07 (HP cc, GCC 2.3.1)
IBM RS6000 AIX 3.2
NeXTStep Mach 3.1
Sun-3 SunOS 4.1.1
Sun-4/SPARC SunOS 4.1.3, SunOS 5.3 (Solaris 2.3)
-- Quoted from README by Michael Cooper in the rdist 6.1 distribution.
Prerequisites: C Compiler