Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!usc!apple!agate!agate!rob From: rob@violet.berkeley.edu (Rob Robertson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: problems with rdist Message-ID: Date: 24 Oct 90 02:34:24 GMT References: <107196@convex.convex.com> <1291@romana.Tymnet.COM> Sender: usenet@agate.berkeley.edu (USENET Administrator) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 32 In-Reply-To: jms@romana.Tymnet.COM's message of 17 Oct 90 01:21:07 GMT add to the list: *) i wanna be able to group files better so that i can selectively rdist out packages, not just till the from a a label to the end of the distfile. *) macros (which i think tom mentioned). *) wild card expansion on the remote host statements like: execpt /etc/hosts.* get expanded on the LOCAL SERVER not on the remote side. *) expansion of tilda's occurs locally, thus if your sending from /home/test/rob to /home/xxx/rob by (~rob/ ) -> xxx it fails. (i have fixed this). *) this is tough: hard links on the server file system that end up being separate file systems on the remote end. there should be a way to specify what to do. *) i also tried to install a file called "install" once it bombed due to a problem in the yacc code. (in the queue to be fixed). rob -- william robertson rob@violet.berkeley.edu "crack has ruined the drug culture" - H S Thompson