The
rdist program is a standard Unix tool for maintaining copies of files across clusters of machines. It can be configured to selectively "push" different sets of files to different classes of machines, or used to copy complete directory trees to one or more machines.
This document describes how to configure a machine to be a client for
rdist over ssh using public key authentication (no passwords required). It also describes how to configure an
rdist master, and provides some notes on how to build and install
rdist on Darwin 6.x.