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From: mjr@osiris.UUCP (Marcus J. Ranum)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: distributed /etc/printcap
Message-ID: <1391@osiris.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 22-Sep-87 09:23:27 EDT
Article-I.D.: osiris.1391
Posted: Tue Sep 22 09:23:27 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 24-Sep-87 07:21:36 EDT
References: <81900001@sfu_cmpt> <2902@phri.UUCP>
Organization: My Etch-A-Sketch runs X-Windows
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Summary: rdist another option

In article <2902@phri.UUCP>, roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
> In article <81900001@sfu_cmpt> stevec@sfu_cmpt.cs.sfu describes how some
> of his 50-odd Suns have private /etc/printcaps, and some share a common
> /etc/printcap via NFS, and the problems therein.

	We used to use rdist(ucd) at my last site. I had a crontab
entry that called rdist with a distfile containing a whole bunch of
files, incl. printcap, hosts, .rhosts, hosts.equiv, etc, etc, etc.

--mjr();
-- 
If they think you're crude, go technical; if they think you're technical,
go crude. I'm a very technical boy. So I get as crude as possible. These
days, though, you have to be pretty technical before you can even aspire
to crudeness...			         -Johnny Mnemonic