Using HP-UX Internet Services (February 2007)

install;
special "cc";
notify bentley@tbear;
Troubleshooting rdist
The errors, warnings, and other messages encountered while using rdist are displayed
on the standard output of the master host. You can use the notify command to mail
a list of the updated files and errors that may have occurred to the specified users on
the remote host being updated. To mail the list to a user that is not on the remote host,
ensure that you specify the mail recipient as user@host.
If rdist does not update the files on the remote system, perform the following checks:
• Use the -n command-line option to check the operation of a distfile. This option
prints the commands to the standard output on the master host without executing
them.
• Ensure that the remote system is reachable by using the ping command.
• Ensure that the source files reside on the master host where rdist is executed.
• Ensure that the source files do not have a negative modification time. rdist aborts
on files that have a negative modification time (before January 1, 1970).
NOTE: On NFS-mounted file systems, root may not have its usual access privileges.
If rdist is run by root, rdist may fail to copy to NFS-mounted volumes.
An error message indicating a mismatch in the rdist version numbers displays due
to the following reasons:
• The BSD version of the rdist software running on the master host is not the same
as that running on the remote system. The HP-UX rdist software is based on
BSD’s version 3 of rdist and is compatible with other implementations of BSD’s
version 3 of rdist. Ensure that the rdist software running on all systems is
based on BSD’s version 3.
• An executable version of rdist is not available in the /usr/bin on directory of
the remote system.
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