seindal@skinfaxe.diku.dk (Rene' Seindal) (10/13/90)
An enhanced version of rdist is available for anonymous ftp from freja.diku.dk in /pub/4.3bsd/rdist.tar.Z. It is based on a freely redistributable version of rdist obtained from uunet (which might not be the newest!) It supports a `-u' option (update only), which effectively supresses all installations on the destination hosts, thus maintaining only the files already present on the destination hosts. This is useful for maintaining hosts that has only a subset of the software present on the source host. It also supports an include directive, which allows the inclusion of common definitions into a Distfile, e.g., the line include "/usr/admin/DistCommon"; will include the named file at that point in the Distfile. This is useful for sharing exception lists and patterns, host lists and file lists between several distfiles. Hope this will be useful for others too. Have fun. Rene' Seindal (seindal@diku.dk)