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From: aglew@ccvaxa.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: phone{phone,mail}-rdist
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Date: 8 Dec 87 20:35:00 GMT
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Nf-From: ccvaxa.UUCP!aglew    Dec  8 14:35:00 1987


Wanted: rdist over phone lines/uucp

At work, I regularly (every night) use Berkeley's rdist program to
keep the same environment up to date on all of the systems I use 
(which are not inherently the same because of NFS).

Now that I have a home computer, 3B1, I'd like to do the same thing over
the phone line, perhaps using uucp, perhaps not. Note that I do not run 
TCP/IP over the phone.

So: does anybody have a public-domain version of rdist that works over
phone lines, or even by electronic mail (uucp) when the machines are
several hops apart?
    The biggest difference I would see would be that this mail-rdist
program would have to be a lot more conservative about what files it
updates, since there could be a big lag between time at which the first
inconsistency was detected, and time at which the output arrived (and 
locking over extended periods of time would be impractical).
    phone-rdist probably would not have this problem.

Please mail; I'll summarize to net if desired.

Andy "Krazy" Glew. Gould CSD-Urbana.    1101 E. University, Urbana, IL 61801   
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