Installing and Administering Internet Services

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Using rdist

This chapter contains information about how to use rdist, a program

that distributes and maintains identical copies of ﬁles across multiple

network hosts. System administrators can use rdist to install new or

updated software on all machines in a network. This chapter includes

the following sections:

• “Overview” on page 321

• “Setting Up remsh” on page 323

• “Creating the Distﬁle” on page 324

• “Starting rdist” on page 330

• “Troubleshooting rdist” on page 333