Use rdist on Darwin 6.x to push files to clients

Sep 29, '03 10:05:00AM

Contributed by: HobartJ

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.

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