[comp.unix.wizards] How to Rdist from one directory to a different directory?

giant@lindy.Stanford.EDU (Buc Richards) (05/04/90)

Rdist works fine when I update directories that have the same name on
all machines.  But how does one perform the operation of updating a
directory that has a different name on the receiving machine.  

The following does not work.

HOSTS =  (user@machine1.Stanford.EDU )

FILES = ( /user/user1
        )

${FILES} -> ${HOSTS}
        install /user/user1/Optical_disk/backup/    ;

This only works if the receiving directory is not yet present, once it
is there Rdist returns with the message "directory already exists" and
exits.

Is there a way around this?

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