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From: montnaro@sprite.steinmetz (Skip Montanaro)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: How do you execute an rdist special command after everything's done?
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Date: Fri, 22-May-87 17:04:20 EDT
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Keywords: rdist make

I recently began fiddling around with rdist (on Sun UNIX 3.2). I want to
have a command (like make) execute after ALL the files have been copied to
the remote host. According to the BUGS section of the rdist man page, there
is no easy way to do it. I came up with the following kluge:



1. Create a simple makefile with the following target description:

dist :
	rm -f markerfile
	rdist
	touch markerfile
	rdist

2. Add the following special command to the distfile:

	special markerfile "some command, like a local make goes here" ;

3. Execute make.



This seems to work okay, but is there some cleaner way around the problem?
As far as I can see, there's no foolproof way to trigger the special command
on one of the actual files getting distributed, since you don't know if it
changed. Any ideas?

Thanks,
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