Rdist

DAILY(8) - System Manager's Manual

Accton, Fsck, Makewhatis, Calendar, Locate, Crontab, Sa, Security, Whatis, Dump, Yp, Cron, Ac, Rdist, Daily

DAILY(8) - System Manager’s Manual # DAILY(8) - System Manager’s Manual NAME # daily, weekly, monthly - periodic system maintenance DESCRIPTION # The three files /etc/daily, /etc/weekly, and /etc/monthly are shell scripts run on a periodic basis by the clock daemon, cron(8). They take care of some basic administrative tasks. Their output, if any, is mailed to root. Note: The scripts are all run as part of root’s crontab(5). However, it is strongly suggested that the root mail account be an alias that forwards messages to a real user or set of users. ...

RDIST(1) - General Commands Manual

Rdistd, Syslogd, Sh, Ssh, Daily, Re_format, Rdist

RDIST(1) - General Commands Manual # RDIST(1) - General Commands Manual NAME # rdist - remote file distribution client program SYNOPSIS # rdist [-DFnV] [-A num] [-a num] [-c mini_distfile] [-d var=value] [-f distfile] [-L remote_logopts] [-l local_logopts] [-M maxproc] [-m host] [-o distopts] [-P rsh-path] [-p rdistd-path] [-t timeout] [name …] DESCRIPTION # rdist is a program to maintain identical copies of files over multiple hosts. It preserves the owner, group, mode, and mtime of files if possible and can update programs that are executing. ...

RDISTD(1) - General Commands Manual

Ssh, Rdist, Rdistd

RDISTD(1) - General Commands Manual # RDISTD(1) - General Commands Manual NAME # rdistd - remote file distribution server program SYNOPSIS # rdistd [-DV] -S DESCRIPTION # rdistd is the server program for the rdist(1) command. It is normally run by rdist via ssh(1). The options are as follows: -D Enable debugging messages. Messages are logged via syslog(3). -S This argument must be specified for normal usage. It exists to prevent the accidental execution of rdistd since it usually resides somewhere in a normal user’s PATH. ...