ahearn@cds2050.cadence.com (John Ahearn) (08/03/90)
I was hoping someone might be able to help me with a particular problem I am having, my apologies if this is the wrong bb for this type of question. I am using rdist on a Sun Sparc 1+ under SunOS 4.0.3. I am trying to get rdist to update my local disk with a directory structure located on a server. I have used the following distfile (copied almost exactly from the example given in the rdist man pages). HOSTS=(root@cds2050) FILES=(/server/cds/4.0) ${FILES} -> ${HOSTS} install -R /cds/4.0; ${FILES} :: /cds/4.0 notify ahearn@cds2050 ; cds2050 is my machine, of which a server partition (/server) is mounted. Unfortunately rdist does not seem to like distributing software that is mounted on one partition onto another. So I ran this rdist file from another Sparc on the network. It seems to work, it recognizes the files that need to be copied, and it takes a long time thinking, it just doesn't do the actual copy. Anybody know what's wrong here? Is the fact that this partition mounted on my machine a problem for it? Is there a better way to do this? Thanks in advance for the help. John Ahearn