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rsync vs. rdist
Authored by: HobartJ on Sep 30, '03 08:25:18AM

rdist does "push" while rsync does "pull". Both are useful.

(Yes, you can push with rsync, but not to many machines at once.)

Rdist can use ssh as the transport protocol, so it is no longer true
that opening up for rdist opens up the old 'r' commands.

It's true that rsync is more efficient. But rdist allows any transport
program that takes the right command line arguments, so it might
even be possible to do rdist via rsync (a wrapper might be required).



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