lindner@cs.umn.edu (Paul Lindner) (03/06/91)
I have had a batch of HP's for a month so far, and I found one thing lacking. ... rdist! IMHO rdist is one of the most important tools to me as a system administrator. I was dismayed when I didn't find it in HP-UX. So...... I ported it to HP-UX. I haven't extensively tested it, but it appears to work just fine for my purposes. The porting was less than trivial. I started with the rdist code from the berkeley tahoe release. I then had to grab the emacs regualar expression and alloca routines. I also had to change the setreuid calls to setresuid calls with an additional -1 parameter. Also I had to convert all the utimes calls to utime calls. (It was harder than it sounds!) One small problem I have noticed. If you are rdisting from a long file system to a short name file system, you will reinstall files, due to the truncation of the short name file system. I've placed all the files needed to compile rdist on me10.lbl.gov in the directory /tmp. Hopefully the fine people at at me10 will move it to a better place. All that should be necessary is to untar it and type make. -- |Paul Lindner |lindner@boombox.micro.umn.edu |"Because Love is all good |University of |U of M ACM President | people need, and Music sets |Minnesota MWNC |I.T. Sun/HP Sysadmin | the sick ones free." -- MLB
milburn@me10.lbl.gov (John Milburn) (03/07/91)
Paul Lindner) writes: [Paul talks about needing rdist and his work in porting it to hpux] >I've placed all the files needed to compile rdist on me10.lbl.gov in >the directory /tmp. Hopefully the fine people at at me10 will move it >to a better place. All that should be necessary is to untar it and >type make. Well, this "fine" person accidentally deleted the file Paul dropped off. :-( However, I added a file (pub/rdist.tar.Z) to the archive which contains the rdist binaries and man pages. These were ported by someone from HP's San Diego division a couple of years ago. All I have are the binaries, not the HP modified source. -jem -- -- John Milburn milburn@me10.lbl.gov "It's classified. I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you." -Maverick
Kimmo.Suominen@lut.fi (Kimmo Suominen) (03/12/91)
>>>>> On 7 Mar 91 01:34:36 GMT, milburn@me10.lbl.gov (John Milburn) said:
John> Well, this "fine" person accidentally deleted the file Paul dropped
John> off. :-( However, I added a file (pub/rdist.tar.Z) to the archive
John> which contains the rdist binaries and man pages. These were ported by
Well, rdist is also included in the BIND package, that someone ported
for HP-UX 3.10. I am still using all the programs from that package
(ftp, ftpd, named, tftp, tftpd, etc) with the HP-UX 7.0 named and
resolver.
Available from lut.fi, in /unix/network/bind.4.8.tar.Z
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