Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 22:51:59 +1100 From: Gautam Gopalakrishnan <ggop@madras.dyndns.org> To: Antoine Jacoutot <ajacoutot@lphp.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rdist to update some lines Message-ID: <20031219115159.GA66514@madras.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <200312191247.41285.ajacoutot@lphp.org> References: <200312191247.41285.ajacoutot@lphp.org>
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On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 12:47:41PM +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > Hi :) > > I'm actually using rdist for centralized management of certain files > (/etc/hosts, /etc/motd...). > Is there a way to use rdist (or any other tools alike) too update a file on a > remote server instead of blindly copying the new file over ? > What I mean is, for exemple, I would like to share some lines in > /etc/make.conf among my servers (but not the entire file), but all of them > aren't the same so I do not want /etc/make.conf to be the exact same on all > my boxes, only like 3 or 4 lines. > Is there a way to do this ? My guess is that you could include a file in make.conf which is synced using rsync. Gautam
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