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From: ahearn@cds2050.cadence.com (John Ahearn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Problems using rdist
Message-ID: <1990Aug2.212454.6735@cadence.com>
Date: 2 Aug 90 21:24:54 GMT
Sender: ahearn@cadence.com (John Ahearn)
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	I was hoping someone might be able to help me with a particular
problem I am having, my apologies if this is the wrong bb for this type
of question.

	I am using rdist on a Sun Sparc 1+ under SunOS 4.0.3.  I am trying
to get rdist to update my local disk with a directory structure located on
a server.  I have used the following distfile (copied almost exactly from
the example given in the rdist man pages).

HOSTS=(root@cds2050)

FILES=(/server/cds/4.0)

${FILES} -> ${HOSTS}
  install -R /cds/4.0;

${FILES} :: /cds/4.0
  notify ahearn@cds2050 ;

cds2050 is my machine, of which a server partition (/server) is mounted.
Unfortunately rdist does not seem to like distributing software that is mounted
on one partition onto another.  So I ran this rdist file from another Sparc
on the network.  It seems to work, it recognizes the files that need to be
copied, and it takes a long time thinking, it just doesn't do the actual copy.
Anybody know what's wrong here?  Is the fact that this partition mounted on
my machine a problem for it?  Is there a better way to do this?

	Thanks in advance for the help.

							John Ahearn