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- From: montjoy@thor.ece.uc.edu (Robert Montjoy)
- Subject: Rdist questions..
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- Organization: University of Cincinnati
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 04:04:59 GMT
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- HI..
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- Just one(hopefully simple) question about rdist.
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- How does rdist handle programs that are actively running on the
- remote host..
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- For example, if someone is running X windows
- and you rdist a new copy of X windows to his fileserver
- does rdist to the right thing and either unlink or rename
- has program to keep from over writing the disk image..
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- Overwriting a program when someone is running it will most likely
- cause the program to "core dump". This is because
- the system will "swap"(the text part) of the executable back to itself.
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- Finally, do any of you use "sup" or "track" instead
- to keep your software distributions up to date??? (for people
- how do not know "sup" and "track" pull instead of push the
- new files..
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- Thanks..
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