Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 21:57:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Craig Huckabee <huck@mispwoso.nosc.mil> To: jimd@mistery.mcafee.com (Jim Dennis) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rdist on local machine Message-ID: <199605230157.VAA02196@mispwoso.nosc.mil> In-Reply-To: <199605230159.SAA11150@mistery.mcafee.com> from "Jim Dennis" at May 22, 96 06:59:32 pm
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Apparently it's been a case of I/O error - idiot operator. As long as I use the real name of the host things work fine. My tests didn't catch that because I was using the /tmp area as a test area like 'rdist -Ryc /test/foo mispwoso:/tmp/foo2' and the R option would wipe the temporary file used by rdist and spit out an error. I could hit myself with a pipe for missing that. I do like the solution suggested below - I may experiment with that and switch later. For now I've just modified my script to use the real host name and boom everything works as before. Thanks, Craig Suggestions below by Jim Dennis (jimd@mistery.mcafee.com) : > > Configuration: > > > One FreeBSD 2.1 RELEASE server running a web server for 3 virtual hosts. > > I've bound each host's IP address to my network card using 'ifconfig alias'. > > Problem: > > One of the 3 virtual hosts used to be on a seperate machine. It was used > > as a development server, so Web pages could be built and tested before > > being moved to a 'live' public server. I used scripts that used 'rdist' > > to move files from a staging area to the 'live' server. > > I've consolidated all of the Web services onto one master server, using > > 'virtual hosts' for everything. > > > > Now I can't get 'rdist' to work with the virtual hosts. For example : > > The machine's name is mispwoso, one virtual hostname is products. > > mispwoso> rdist -Ryc /u0/stage_area/ products:/u0/products/ > > This fails with a 'rcmd : Unrecognized error : 0' > > > > Is there a way to make rdist work or is there an easy way to get the > > same functionality from some other combination of tools? > > Am I missing something obvious here? > > Why not just use 'find | xargs cp' or the old > 'tar cf - ./* | (cd $target && tar xpf -)' construct > > (I'm sure that some sort of switches could > be added to that to make it "incremental") > > If the files are just being moved/copied to new locations > on the local hard disks (or even across NFS) it seems like > rdist is overkill. > > > Any help is appreciated, > > What happens if you try to "rlogin" to the other virtual > host(s)? What about "rsh $vhost 'which rdist'" (can you > rsh, and can your rsh environment "see" the copy of > rdist)? What does your distfile look like? > > (I use rdist from my internal host to my ftphosts and > will be adding my webhost(s) to the mix pretty soon > However I suggest that you consider running it > through 'ssh' rather than 'rsh') > > > Craig > > huck@nosc.mil
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