>> I know that rdist is something that I've heard a lot of
>> people rip on for
>> one reason or another, but I can't remember what those
>> reasons are.
>
>One reason I think rdist isn't great is that it uses file sizes and modify
>times to determine whether a file should be copied. I also personally find
>the syntax rather cryptic. Additionally, you need to have .rhosts or
>something similar in place for authentication, which is very insecure.
What he said!
I take a different approach, though. I use cfengine
(http://www.iu.hioslo.no/cfengine) which can also do encrypted copy,
it can understand tcpwrappers to add a little more control, and you
can choose to copy files on size, modification dates or by checksum.
Of course, cfengine does a great deal more than that, too,
which is why we use it: process checking and quenching, symlink tree
creation, log rotation, etc.
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