Using HP-UX Internet Services (February 2007)

You can use the notify command to send the list of changed files to a specific user.
The following is an example entry with the notify command:
${FILES} :: stamp.cory
notify root@cory ;
In this example, the list of files that are newer than the timestamp in stamp.cory are
mailed to the user root@cory. With the notify command, if an @ symbol appears in
the user name, the default value is the remote host name.
Starting rdist
After creating the distfile on the master host, you can start rdist from the command
line or from a cron file. You must run rdist as root on the master host. Following
are the syntaxes for starting rdist from the command line:
• /usr/bin/rdist [-b] [-h] [-i] [-n] [-q] [-R] [-v] [-w]
[-y] [-d var=value] [-f distfile] [-m host] ... [label]
where,
-d var=value sets the value of the variable var to value. value can be an
empty string, a single name, or a list of names separated by tabs and spaces, and
enclosed within parentheses. The -d option is used to define variable definitions
in the distfile. However, if you specify the -d option for a variable that is
already defined in the distfile, the -d option has no effect (because the
distfile overrides the -d option).
-f distfile specifies the file, distfile, used to update files and directories.
If you do not specify the distfile, rdist first looks in the current working
directory for the file distfile, and then the file Distfile.
-m host limits the updates to host, which is one of the hosts previously identified
in the distfile. You can specify multiple -m arguments.
label performs only the command entries specified by label in the distfile.
• /usr/bin/rdist [-b] [-h] [-i] [-n] [-q] [-R] [-v] [-w]
[-y] -c pathname ... [login@]host[:destpath]
where,
-c pathname ... [login@]host[:destpath] updates files in pathname
on the remote host host (the -c arguments are interpreted as a distfile).
login specifies the user name used to perform the update. destpath specifies
the path name of the installed file on the remote host.
Table 5-2 describes all the other rdist command-line options.
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