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From: lindner@cs.umn.edu (Paul Lindner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: rdist on HPs
Summary: I ported it!
Message-ID: <1991Mar5.225532.21799@cs.umn.edu>
Date: 5 Mar 91 22:55:32 GMT
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, CSci dept.
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I have had a batch of HP's for a month so far, and I found one thing lacking.

... rdist!

IMHO rdist is one of the most important tools to me as a system administrator.
I was dismayed when I didn't find it in HP-UX.  So......

 	I ported it to HP-UX.

I haven't extensively tested it, but it appears to work just fine for my 
purposes.  The porting was less than trivial.  I started with the rdist
code from the berkeley tahoe release. I then had to grab the
emacs regualar expression and alloca routines.  I also had to change
the setreuid calls to setresuid calls with an additional -1 parameter.  Also
I had to convert all the utimes calls to utime calls. (It was harder than
it sounds!)

One small problem I have noticed.  If you are rdisting from a long file
system to a short name file system, you will reinstall files, due to the
truncation of the short name file system.

I've placed all the files needed to compile rdist on me10.lbl.gov in
the directory /tmp.  Hopefully the fine people at at me10 will move it
to a better place.  All that should be necessary is to untar it and
type make.
 
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