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- From: mcooper@usc.edu (Michael A. Cooper)
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- Subject: [comp.unix.admin] ANNOUNCEMENT: Rdist 6.0.0 now available
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- Date: 20 Dec 1992 20:57:09 GMT
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- Archive-name: auto/comp.unix.admin/ANNOUNCEMENT-Rdist-6-0-0-now-available
-
- Rdist version 6.0.0 is now available for anonymous ftp from usc.edu as
- pub/rdist/rdist.tar.Z. It will be posted to one of the source
- newsgroups soon. The list of new features is detailed in the ChangeLog
- file which is at the end of this announcement.
-
-
- Rdist Version 6.0
- 11/29/92
-
- Michael Cooper
- University of Southern California
- University Computing Services
- mcooper@usc.edu
-
- GENERAL INFORMATION
-
- This is version 6.0 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 for some time ow 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. See COMPATIBILITY
- below for details.
-
- The current version of rdist is available via anonymous ftp on usc.edu
- under /pub/rdist. The current version is always retrievable as file
- "/pub/rdist/rdist.tar.Z".
-
- CHANGES/FEATURES
-
- See the ChangeLog file for details. The end of the file contains the
- major new features compared to rdist classic.
-
- A paper titled "Overhauling Rdist for the '90s" from USENIX LISA VI
- is available for anonymous ftp on usc.edu as "/pub/rdist/overhaul.ps.Z".
-
- PLATFORMS
-
- This version of rdist has been tested on the following:
-
- MACHINE TYPE OPERATING SYSTEM
- --------------- ----------------------------------
- Alliant 2800 Concentrix 2.2
- Alliant FX/80 Concentrix 5.X
- DEC MIPS Ultrix 4.2
- HP 9000/300 Mt Xinu MORE/bsd (4.3BSD)*
- 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
- NeXT Mach 2.2, 3.0
- Sun-3 SunOS 4.0.3, 4.1.1
- Sun-386i SunOS 4.0.1
- Sun-4 SunOS 4.0.3, 4.1.1, 4.1.2, 4.1.3
- Multiflow 4.3 BSD TRACE/UNIX Version 5.0.4
- MIPS RISC/os 4.51, 5.0
-
- * Not recently tested. Known to work at some point in the past.
-
- It should work on just about any BSD based Unix with little or no
- modification. It will probably work on modern System V based OS's
- such as SVR4 with some work.
-
- COMPATIBILITY
-
- This version of rdist differs greatly from older versions (as
- distributed with 4.3BSD) in that the client and the server portions
- are seperated into two distinct programs, rdist and rdistd,
- respectively. The protocol used to communicate between the client and
- server has also been extensively modified. These two items make
- providing "builtin" compatibility very difficult. However, backwards
- compatibility is possible, provided you have a binary or source copy
- of the old rdist.
-
- The way the old rdist started a server rdist is to run "rdist
- -Server". If the new rdist is run with the "-Server" option, then it
- will exec a copy of the old rdist (usually /usr/old/rdist or
- /usr/ucb/oldrdist). In this way, you get compatibility with hosts
- running the old rdist attempting to rdist to a machine running new
- rdist. If your host running new rdist wants to rdist to a host
- running the old rdist, then it must run the old rdist program
- (/usr/old/rdist or /usr/ucb/oldrdist).
-
- The definetion _PATH_OLDRDIST in config.h controls the location of
- the old rdist. If this is not defined, or the defined program does
- not exist at runtime, then rdist will print an error when run with the
- "-Server" option.
-
- INSTALLATION
-
- 1) Edit "Makefile" and follow the comments on what parameters may need to
- be set and/or changed.
-
- 2) Edit "config.h" and follow the comments on what parameters may need to
- be set and/or changed.
-
- 3) Run "make" to compile everything.
-
- 4) Run "make install" to install the binaries and "make install.man" to
- install the manual pages.
-
- BUG REPORTS
-
- Bug reports should be sent to "rdist-bugs@usc.edu". All bug reports
- should include:
-
- 1) The version of the rdist client and server you are running
- (use the -V option to rdist and rdistd)
- 2) The platform (machine + OS name + OS version)
- 3) A full description of the problem, including sample distfiles.
- 4) If you have a patch to fix the problem, a context diff (diff -c)
- of the original files vs. the fixed files
-
- RDIST MAIL LISTS
-
- There are two rdist mailling lists described below. PLEASE DO NOT SEND
- GENERAL QUESTIONS TO ANY OF THESE LISTS.
-
- LIST NAME SUBSCRIPTION ADDRESS DESCRIPTION
- --------------- ----------------------- ------------------------------------
- rdist-announce rdist-announce-request Announcements about new versions
- of Rdist.
-
- rdist-dev rdist-dev-request Rdist developers mailling list.
- Discussion about rdist features,
- suggestions, bugs, etc. Will also
- receive all rdist-announce mail.
-
- To subscribe or unsubscribe, send email to the appropriate
- SUBSCRIPTION ADDRESS from above "@usc.edu". i.e.
- "rdist-dev-request@usc.edu" for the "rdist-dev" list.
-
- Archives are available for anonymous ftp from usc.edu as
-
- /pub/rdist/<LIST>.archive
-
- NOTES
-
- IBM AIX
-
- I use a modified definition for "bsdcc" in /etc/xlc.cfg for compiling
- rdist under AIX 3.X:
-
- * standard c compiler aliased as bsdcc
- bsdcc: use = DEFLT
- crt = /lib/crt0.o
- mcrt = /lib/mcrt0.o
- gcrt = /lib/gcrt0.o
- libraries = -lbsd, -lc
- proflibs = -L/lib/profiled,-L/usr/lib/profiled
- options = -H512,-T512,-qlanglvl=extended,-qnoro,-D_BSD,-Dunix=1,
- -D_NONSTD_TYPES, -D_NO_PROTO, -D_BSD_INCLUDES, -tp,
- -B/lib/
-
- HP/UX
-
- All of this information on HP/UX is third-hand. I don't have
- access to any HP/UX machines to test rdist on.
-
- Unlike HPUX version 7, version 8 does not come standard with yacc
- which is now part of the C/ANSI C Development Bundle. If that bundle
- is on the system, then rdist compiles fine with the changes to the
- Makefile to include regex.o and strcasecmp.o. If you don't have yacc
- and instead use the GNU bison in the yacc mode (-y option) it compiles
- fine but needs to have the PW library included (-lPW) in order to find
- an alloca.o when linking.
-
- The regex that is part of the HPUX C library is not compatible with
- the BSD style regex that rdist uses. Someone who leaves regex.o out
- of the MISSINGOBJS line in the Makefile because they noticed a
- regex(3) in the HPUX manual set is going to have a problem.
-
- OLD rcmd() LIBRARY BUG
-
- Very Old 4.2BSD-based Unix systems may have a bug in their rcmd()
- library function. The bug allowed a user process to run out of file
- descriptors if too many connection attempts failed. The problem is
- that the socket would never be closed if the connect() failed. This
- could eventually lead to running out of file descriptors if enough
- connections failed. Most current Unix's like SunOS 4.0.3 and later
- have this fixed. Here is a diff to (I think) the SunOS 3.5 rcmd() to
- fix the problem:
-
- ***************
- *** 51,56 ****
- --- 65,71 ----
- timo *= 2;
- goto retry;
- }
- + (void) close(s);
- perror(hp->h_name);
- return (-1);
- }
-
- RCS INFO
-
- This is rcs info for this file:
- $Id: README,v 6.8 1992/11/29 22:00:38 mcooper Exp mcooper $
-
- Wed Dec 2 14:46:18 1992 Michael A. Cooper (mcooper@acamar.usc.edu)
-
- * Update rdistcfilter: More cleanup and minor speedups from Tom
- Christiansen.
-
- * Update rdistcfilter to remove truncation of hosts list when lots
- of hosts are present. (tchrist)
-
- Sun Nov 29 13:35:42 1992 Michael A. Cooper (mcooper@acamar.usc.edu)
-
- * Version 6.0.0
-
- * Add more HPUX comments to README and Makefile. (Allan Weber)
-
- * Define NBIO_TYPE to be NBIO_FCNTL for HPUX. (Allan Weber)
-
- Tue Nov 17 10:04:45 1992 Michael A. Cooper (mcooper@acamar.usc.edu)
-
- * Version 6.0beta.10
-
- * Update list of PLATFORMS in README.
-
- Thu Nov 12 10:52:54 1992 Michael A. Cooper (mcooper@acamar.usc.edu)
-
- * Use E_SFILE in place of hardcoded "FILE".
-
- * Fix ": is not an identifier" problem with special commands under
- AIX and NeXT by disabling SETARGS.
-
- Wed Nov 11 10:42:27 1992 Michael A. Cooper (mcooper@acamar.usc.edu)
-
- * When NOCHKOWNER and NOCHKGROUP are enabled, don't check
- directory ownership.
-
- * Make getmountent() work again for AIX.
-
- Tue Nov 10 15:09:59 1992 Michael A. Cooper (mcooper@acamar.usc.edu)
-
- * Version 6.0beta.9
-
- Mon Nov 9 13:19:51 1992 Michael A. Cooper (mcooper@acamar.usc.edu)
-
- * Use new *_TYPE defines for defining the types of interfaces
- available for getting filesystem info, non-blocking I/O, wait()
- function(), and directory routines.
-
- * Modify rdistcfilter to wrap list of hosts instead of truncating.
-
- * Clarify rdistd being in $PATH in rdist.1. (Mike Urban)
-
- * Remove SIGPIPE as SIGCHLD equivilent.
-
- * Add -ochksym option. When enabled, this option will cause rdist
- to act like the original version when dealing with rdisting
- directories to symlinks. The original rdist simple ignored the
- condition where the target on a remote host was a symlink when the
- target on the master was a directory. The new rdist will
- automatically make the target on the remote host be the same as
- the master. This option disables this behavior.
-
- * Fix bug with notify failing with certain message level flags.
-
- * Only send notify mail when things actually change.
-
- * Add support for Sequent Dynix 3.1.2. (Ken Dahl)
-
- * Add BSDI support. (Ken Dahl & Jonathan Cohn)
-
- * Fix argument order to error() in client.c.
-
- Thu Oct 29 09:59:14 1992 Michael A. Cooper (mcooper@acamar.usc.edu)
-
- * Version 6.0beta.8.
-
- Tue Oct 27 10:19:11 1992 Michael A. Cooper (mcooper@acamar.usc.edu)
-
- * Add support for Multiflow Trace 4.3BSD. (wls)
-
- * Make wait() configurable and add support for wait3().
-
- * Include strcasecmp.c in distribution.
-
- * Cleanup child handling based on code/suggestions from Neal
- Becker, Rich Salz, and Chris Torek.
-
- * Don't print hostname in "Response time out" message since
- error() handles that.
-
- * Add -onochkowner,nochkgroup options. When enabled, no check of
- a file's user (nochkowner) or group (nochkgroup) ownership is
- performed.
-
- * Prepend DO_ to dist option macros.
-
- * Implement new -o<distopt> to replace all the -X options.
-
- * Actually make error messages work by default.
-
- * Change fchog() to always print unknown users.
-
- * Change fchog() to always print name of target file for messages.
-
- Fri Oct 16 13:01:41 1992 Michael A. Cooper (mcooper@acamar.usc.edu)
-
- * Version 6.0beta.7.
-
- * Update rdist.1 to more fully describe new message handling system.
-
- * Lower syslog logging levels to be mostly LOG_INFO.
-
- * Don't explicitly call reap(). Let SIGCHLD call reap(). (Neal
- Becker)
-
- * Only call removechild() from reap(). (Neal Becker)
-
- * Fix trivial child list-handling mistake. (Neal Becker)
-
- * Call cleanup() to remove /tmp/rdist* files. (Neal Becker)
-
- * Remove extraneous debugging info in getnlstr().
-
- * Don't close distfile file descriptor if it's stdin. (James
- Tanis)
-
- * Always strip '+' from hostnames to be consistant. (James Tanis)
-
- Thu Oct 15 10:59:14 1992 Michael A. Cooper (mcooper@acamar.usc.edu)
-
- * Fix problem with buffer being overwritten in "chown from ..."
- message.
-
- * Modified rdistcfilter to lexically sort messages.
-
- * Fix argument type mismatch in getmountent() which cause core
- dump when filesystem free space checking was enabled.
-
- Wed Oct 14 11:17:45 1992 Michael A. Cooper (mcooper@acamar.usc.edu)
-
- * Fix argument mismatch error in call to messae() which could
- result in a core dump.
-
- * Fix bug with directories almost always being reported with -y as
- "remote copy is newer".
-
- * Change message output format (again) to make both normal
- messages and error messages consistant.
-
- * Only check file mtime and size if file type is "regular".
-
- * Fix mismatched parameters in call to debugmsg(). (Neal Becker)
-
- Tue Oct 13 15:07:56 1992 Michael A. Cooper (mcooper@acamar.usc.edu)
-
- * Version 6.0beta.6.
-
- * Fix possible stack overflow problem in expand code.
-
- Mon Oct 12 19:41:24 1992 Michael A. Cooper (mcooper@acamar.usc.edu)
-
- * Fix long term problem with hardlink installations. (<luik@isa.de>
- Andreas Luik)
-
- * Slight performance improvement in reading directories.
-
- * Add better checking/setting of directory ownership.
-
- * Add another check to see if remote owner.group match local
- owner.group.
-
- Fri Oct 9 13:01:23 1992 Michael A. Cooper (mcooper@acamar.usc.edu)
-
- * All OS dependent filesystem routines moved from filesys.c to new
- getmount.c.
-
- * Add support for BSD386. (Ken Dahl)
-
- * Move OS name definetions from config.h to new config-os.h.
-
- * Change configdata.h to config-data.h and create config-os.h.
-
- * Fix chkparent() to actually make directories when needed.
-
- Wed Oct 7 11:20:23 1992 Michael A. Cooper (mcooper@acamar.usc.edu)
-
- * Use standard system and predefined values for open() and pipe().
-
- * Children now exit with status "nerrs".
-
- * Only log debugmsg() about exit status of child for legit children.
-
- * Massive overhual of internal message handling system. All
- messages now pass through the message() function. There are
- different message facilities are configured to handle the
- different message types. The format of messages has also been
- made more consistent.
-
- Thu Sep 24 11:11:19 1992 Michael A. Cooper (mcooper@acamar.usc.edu)
-
- * Use new x*alloc() functions that do error checking.
-
- * Major changes to use select() to read input from children.
-
- * Major code cleanup of children related functions.
-
- * Add Steve Romig's "compact-rdist-output" perl filter to the
- distribution as "rdistcfilter.pl". Also renamed rdistfilter.pl to
- be rdistvfilter.pl.
-
- Thu Sep 17 13:13:35 1992 Michael A. Cooper (mcooper@acamar.usc.edu)
-
- * Remove extraneous fclose(lfp) in doarrow(). (Bill Sebok)
-
- * Fix botch with setfiletime() which set bogus file times. (Bill
- Sebok)
-
- * Make :: work for special and cmdspecial. (Bill Sebok)
-
- Wed Sep 16 16:49:13 1992 Michael A. Cooper (mcooper@acamar.usc.edu)
-
- * Fix problem with tempfile (/tmp/rdistXXXXXX) being removed when
- it shouldn't.
-
- Tue Sep 15 10:04:32 1992 Michael A. Cooper (mcooper@acamar.usc.edu)
-
- * Version 6.0beta.5
-
- * Fix core dump problem with list subtraction/addition. (Neal Becker)
-
- * Fix problem with HPUX being defined after first #if check in defs.h.
-
- Mon Sep 14 12:52:32 1992 Michael A. Cooper (mcooper@acamar.usc.edu)
-
- * Version 6.0beta.4
-
- * Add note to README about AIX bsdcc stanza.
-
- * Clarify -w description in rdist.1.
-
- * Include target name in error msg "no files to be updated".
-
- Fri Sep 11 14:04:45 1992 Michael A. Cooper (mcooper@acamar.usc.edu)
-
- * Fixed a bug in rdistd which caused set[ug]id bits to not be
- cleared when they were suppose to be, even when it said it was
- being cleared. The mode of a file/directory would also not be set
- in certain cases. This bug looks to date back to the original version.
-
- * Add support for macro list addition and subtraction (Rich Salz).
-
- * Make having statfs() configurable with HAVE_STATFS (Rich Salz).
-
- * Define HPUX if __hpux is defined and change things to use HPUX.
-
- * Make the type of directory struct used configurable (Rich Salz).
-
- Tue Sep 1 14:46:00 1992 Michael A. Cooper (mcooper@acamar.usc.edu)
-
- * Fix another case of setgid being stripped when the owner's
- primary (passwd) gid == file group owner. (Ken Dahl)
-
- * Change "Don't know how to rdist to ..." to be "Label ... is not
- defined in the distfile." for clarity.
-
- Mon Aug 31 15:08:26 1992 Michael A. Cooper (mcooper@acamar.usc.edu)
-
- * Change "register char i" to "register int i" in docmd().
-
- * Fixed another bug with "Don't know how to rdist to ...". This
- time, a much simplier approach was taken to remove the "unused"
- stuff from the last fix.
-
- * Save argc and argv from main() into realargc and realargv
- before setargs() overwrites.
-
- Fri Aug 28 16:36:34 1992 Michael A. Cooper (mcooper@acamar.usc.edu)
-
- * The primary group of the owner of a file was not being checked
- in fchog(), which resulted in the setgid bit being cleared.
-
- Thu Aug 27 13:33:35 1992 Michael A. Cooper (mcooper@acamar.usc.edu)
-
- * Fixed typo in config.h that disabled SETARGS.
-
- * Make _PATH_OLDRDIST compatibility actually work. Also do
- logging via logmsg() and fatal() for compat stuff.
-
- * Fatal() error msgs are now logged to logmsg(LOG_ERR, ...) for rdistd
-
- * Strip leading path of progname.
-
- Mon Aug 10 15:33:22 1992 Michael A. Cooper (mcooper@acamar.usc.edu)
-
- * Update wording on old rcmd() bug in README. (Rich)
-
- Thu Aug 6 09:59:58 1992 Michael A. Cooper (mcooper@acamar.usc.edu)
-
- * Fix ISEXEC define in isexec.c. (Neal Becker)
-
- Changes up to Release 6.0beta.3:
- Wed Aug 5 14:10:22 1992 Michael A. Cooper (mcooper@acamar.usc.edu)
-
- * Fix problem with ETXTBSY code not working. (Neal Becker)
-
- * Add support for HP 9000/[78]00 executable format. (Neal Becker)
-
- * Defining SETARGS breaks "special" command under HP/UX. (Neal Becker)
-
- * Change #ifdef's of "hpux" to be "__hpux" for compability
- with both HP/UX 7.* and 8.* OS versions. (Neal Becker & Allan Weber)
-
- * Get rid of #define's in defs.h by compiling yacc with -d.
- Also change tokens like SM (';') to be real chars in the grammer
- instead of tokens for clarity. (Rich)
-
- * Change ISDIR -> S_ISDIR, ISREG -> S_ISREG, ISLNK -> S_ISLNK
- to be POSIX compliant. (Rich)
-
- * Document in rdist.1 how rdist runs rdistd.
-
- * Replace ".in +5" with ".RS/.RE" in rdist.1. (Rich)
-
- * Remove preprocessor support. Use "m4 distfile | rdist -f -"
- for same effect without the ugly code. (Rich)
-
- * Clarify -N and -O options in rdist.1 (Rich).
-
- * Document that we can't use strchr() in place of any() because
- most systems strchr() can't handle some of the input we pass.
-
- Changes up to Release 6.0beta.2:
- Tue Aug 4 15:20:46 1992 Michael A. Cooper (mcooper@acamar.usc.edu)
-
- * Rename patchlevel.h to version.h and move VERSION define
- from config.h to version.h.
-
- Tue Aug 4 15:03:53 1992 Michael A. Cooper (mcooper@acamar.usc.edu)
-
- * Cleanup comments about configuration and such in Makefile,
- config.h, pathnames.h, and README.
-
- Fri Jul 31 14:59:45 1992 Michael A. Cooper (mcooper@acamar.usc.edu)
-
- * Fix to fix "Don't know how to make ..." fix.
-
- Thu Jul 30 14:34:46 1992 Michael A. Cooper (mcooper at acamar.usc.edu)
-
- * Add -V options to rdist and rdistd to print version information.
-
- * Portability changes and support for HP/UX from Allan Weber
- (weber@sipi.usc.edu).
-
- Changes up to 6.0alpha3:
- Fri Jul 24 11:27:08 1992 Michael A. Cooper (mcooper@acamar.usc.edu)
-
- * Fix bug with ^C of "rdist" resulting in a core dump. An invalid
- jmpbuf was being used in a call to longjmp().
-
- * Fix problem with modify time not being set on NeXT 2.1 machines.
- Also now set the access time of newly installed/updated file to
- be the current time instead of the atime from the source machine.
-
- Mon Jul 20 12:46:20 1992 Michael A. Cooper (mcooper@acamar.usc.edu)
-
- * Fix misspelling of ${MISSINGOBJS} in Makefile.
-
- * Fix problem with "Don't know how to rdist to ..." error being
- printed when it shouldn't be.
-
-
- Thu Jul 16 10:58:09 1992 Michael A. Cooper (mcooper@acamar.usc.edu)
-
- * Fix problem with hosts marked as + in the distfile having
- multiple child update the host simaltaneously, which causes race
- conditions when updating certain targets.
-
-
- Changes up to 6.0alpha2:
- Tue Jul 14 12:40:24 1992 Michael A. Cooper (mcooper@acamar.usc.edu)
-
- * Cleanup and fix rdistfilter.
-
- Thu Jul 9 16:15:00 1992 Michael A. Cooper (mcooper@acamar.usc.edu)
-
- * Back out reverse polling code to be clean and remove one source
- of possible bugs.
-
- Tue Jul 7 12:37:40 1992 Michael A. Cooper (mcooper@acamar.usc.edu)
-
- * Port back to AIX/RS6000 (3.2), Alliant Concentrix 5.5,
- Sun-386i (SunOS 4.0.1), DEC MIPS (Ultrix 4.2), NeXT (Mach 2.1).
- Mainly this was changes to config.h and creation of isexec.c
- to make porting to new platforms more straigtforward.
-
-
- Changes up through 6.0alpha
-
- - The client and the server are now split into two seperate programs
- (rdist and rdistd). The client (rdist) looks like older versions of
- rdist. Instead of running "/usr/ucb/rdist" on a remote machine, it
- now runs "rdistd". Notice that it doesn't run "/usr/ucb/rdistd"
- or use any explicit pathname. This is to improve portability to
- various different platforms where "/usr/ucb" may not exist. What
- this means is that the server must be somewhere in the user's default
- $PATH if the client is to successfully run rdistd.
-
- This also means that the server no longer needs to be setuid root.
- Only the client still needs setuid root (because it uses priv'ed
- ports). This should cut down a bit on potential security holes.
-
- Because the server (rdistd) resides in normal user "bin" directories,
- it requires the -S option in order to run. This is to avoid users
- accidentially typing "rdistd" instead of "rdist".
-
- - If the client (rdist) is started with the "-Server" option (which
- is the old rdist method of starting rdist in server mode), it
- will attempt to run the old version of rdist, if it was compiled
- with the name of that program. This is for backwards compatibility
- and should allow this version of rdist to co-exist with older versions.
-
- - Add support for running a pre-processor (m4 by default) over the
- distfile before processing.
-
- - If a connection to a host fails, avoid trying to recontact host
- again.
-
- - Use getopt() for command line option parsing. I hate getopt(), but
- everybody wants to use it. Sigh.
-
- - A slew of new options. See the man page for details.
-
- - Add buffered remote read code from Chris Torek along with some other
- code cleanups.
-
- - Check free space and files on a filesystem before installing.
- This code will (optionally) check the amount of free space
- and files (inodes) on a filesystem before installing. If the
- free space and/or files is less then specified by the initiator,
- then the target will not be installed and an error returned.
- This is useful for preventing rdist from filling up a remote
- filesystem.
-
- - Concurrent rdist processes.
- Update multiple hosts concurrently by fork'ing children
- with each child updating one host. The number of
- children is limited to a given number (usually 4), but is
- controllable with a command line option (-M).
-
- - Add "setargs" code to set process arguments to indicate what host
- we are talking to. A protocol change was required for this.
-
- - If a remote target resides on a NFS or read-only filesystem,
- then don't try to update target on that host. This elimates
- having to have millions of seperate lists and exceptions
- for hosts with certain parts NFS mounted or read-only mounted
- and hosts with everything mounted read-write.
-
- - Set timeout alarms to avoid hanging when something happens
- to a server during a session. Remove servers can sometimes
- get into a state either during startup or during a session
- where they will never send a response back to the local rdist
- master process.
-
- - Add ability to rdist a symlink to a directory and vice-versa.
- Previously, this would fail.
-
- - Add checking and setting of file modes. If a file's mode is not
- what it should be, the entire file is updated in case there was
- any tampering. If the target is a directory, then just the mode
- of the directory is updated.
-
- - Major code cleanup and restructuring. Major portions of the code
- has been re-written and/or restructured.
-
- - Add config.h file for configuration related items.
-
- - Fixed a security hole with setreuid().
-
- - Add better error messages. We now distinguish between LOCAL and
- REMOTE errors.
-
- RCS INFO
-
- $Id: ChangeLog,v 1.11 1992/11/29 22:16:28 mcooper Exp mcooper $
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