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SubjectRe: New Linux distribution - PSL
Michael H. Warfield wrote:
>
> Geert Uytterhoeven enscribed thusly:
>
> > On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Stefan Petters wrote:
> > > It took me some time, but I've currently running Debian on about 20 PCs.
> > > Really maintaining I'm only one (the server which is an SMP--machine,
> > > the rest are mostly single--processor--machines). I had to configure a
> > > few things seperatly for each host (like fstab or things like that)
> > > hacked the scripts in /etc/init.d to accept an /etc/rc.config (This was
> > > refused by Debian about 2 and a half years ago and is now implemented in
> > > a very similar way, the replies indicated, that they didn't understand
> > > the concept at first ;-) and manage different setups (ISDN--router,
> > > modem--server, boards with framegrabber). To distribute changes made on
> > > the server I use SUP. This way I wriggled my way, from one of the first
> > > releases over to rex, bo and now hamm. I've to say: Everything works
> > > just fine.
>
> > Same here, but we use rdist instead of sup.
>
> If you are using rdist, you might want to take a look at rsync.
> I used rdist for updating systems but after trying rsync I immediately
> switched over. While both can use ssh as an underlying transport, rsync
> can be orders of magnitude faster than rdist and it's much easier to setup.
> You use the rsync command just the same way you would use the rcp or scp
> commands except that you also have recursive modes, permission preservation,
> mod time preservation, ownership preservation, missing file deletion, etc,
> etc, etc, like you do with rdist. The reason rsync is sooo much faster is
> that it uses a "diff and patch" type of approach and only sends out changes.
>
> The other BIG advantage rsync has over rdist is that it works
> "both ways". You can rsync IN FROM a remote system as well as OUT TO
> a remote system.
>
> I didn't believe the speed improvements over rdist at first. It went
> so fast, I thought it hadn't done anything - but the changes where there!
>
> Check it out up at http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/
>
> > Greetings,
>
Yeah, all these things are great! The only problem is that you have to
do it yourself & learn how to do it right. And no real help from dist.
But I want it to be the *default* on server-system. I want installation
to be able to benefit from such a SMP machine on the net, that has all
the required stuff compiled the way you want it.

Vadim

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