A modern version of rdist vis rsync

Fergus McMenemie · *nix forums beginner Joined: 25 Apr 2005 Posts: 6

Hi,

Having used rdist quite happily for years, I have recently decided
to improve the security side of things. Telnet, ftp and the rcmds
have all been disabled in favour of ssh. I was assuming I would
follow the crowd and move to rsync for synchronizing files around
the network.

However having gotten to grips with rsync I am quite disappointed
with it. It does not come close to the functionality with of
rdist. I would have to write a fir sized wrapper script to wrap around
rsync. Looking around the net I spotted there are newer versions
of rdist which support ssh and even compression. The compression
and delta file transfer may not be as good as rsync's but I would
be quite happy with a secure version or rsync.

Anybody using these newer versions of rdist on solaris 2.8+.
Any recommendations?

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