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INDEX ENTRY FOR TRACK:
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Name: track - Synchronizes files on a network
Version: not stated
Author(s): Daniel Nachbar, Maturin Financial Management <daniel@nachbar.com>
Mark Moraes, D. E. Shaw & Co. <moraes@deshaw.com>
with many additional contributors <hacks@cs.toronto.edu>
On the CD-ROM in: sysadm/track.tar
Ftp source: relay.cs.toronto.edu:/pub
Size on the CD: 750 KB (uncompressed)
Description:
This is "track", a system that tries to maintain software and
data on multiple machines. Updates are made on a central machine
(or machines) called the librarians, and made available for export.
Receiving machines, called subscribers, initiate the transfer of
files, by asking for the list of changed files and getting the
files they need/want. Librarians have complete control over the
files they want to export, the subscribers they want to export to
and the times they are willing to make changes known, subscribers
have complete control over the files they want to import, where
they want to put those files and the times they want to import files.
That allows track to be used between administratively independent
domains, and makes it considerably more flexible and efficient
than rdist.
-- Adapted from the README file
Advertised architectures:
We use it heavily on Suns running SunOS4.x and 5.3, Ultrix
machines (Vaxen and DS3100s) and SGI Iris4Ds running Iris [45].x.
-- Quoted from the README file
Prerequisites:
C compiler