rdist - remote file distribution program
rdist [-b] [-D] [-h] [-i] [-n] [-q] [-R] [-a] [-x] [-PN | -PO] [-k realm] [-v] [-w] [-y] [-d macro = value] [-f distfile] [-m host]...
rdist [-b] [-D] [-h] [-i] [-n] [-q] [-R] [-a] [-x] [-PN | -PO] [-k realm] [-v] [-w] [-y] -c pathname... [login @] hostname [: destpath]
The rdist utility maintains copies of files on multiple hosts. It preserves the owner, group, mode, and modification time of the master copies, and can update programs that are executing. (Note: rdist does not propagate ownership or mode changes when the file contents have not changed.) Normally, a copy on a remote host is updated if its size or modification time differs from the original on the local host. With the -y option (younger mode), only the modification times are checked, not the size. See OPTIONS below.
There are two forms of the rdist command. In the first form shown in the SYNOPSIS section above, rdist reads the indicated distfile for instructions on updating files and/or directories. If distfile is `-', the standard input is used. If no -f option is present, rdist first looks in its working directory for distfile, and then for Distfile, for instructions.
The second form shown in SYNOPSIS uses the -c option and specifies paths as command line options.
The user can opt for a secure session of rdist which uses Kerberos V5 for authentication. Encryption of the data being transferred is also possible. The rdist session can be kerberized using any of the following Kerberos specific options : -a, -PN or -PO, -x, and -k realm. Some of these options (-x, -PN or -PO, and -f or -F) can also be specified in the [appdefaults] section of krb5.conf(4). The usage of these options and the expected behavior is discussed in the OPTIONS section below. If Kerberos authentication is used, authorization to the account is controlled by rules in krb5_auth_rules(5). If this authorization fails, fallback to normal rdist using rhosts will occur only if the -PO option is used explicitly on the command line or is specified in krb5.conf(4). Also notice that the -PN or -PO, -x, and -k realm options are just supersets of the -a option. In order to use the non-secure version of rdist across machines, each host machine must have a /etc/host.equiv file, or the user must have an entry in the .rhosts file in the home directory. See hosts.equiv(4) for more information.
The following options are supported:
-a
-b
-c pathname ... [login@]hostname[:destpath]
-d macro=value
-D
-f distfile
-h
-i
-k realm
-m host
-n
-PO
-PN
-q
-R
-v
-w
-x
-y
NEWLINE, TAB, and SPACE characters are all treated as white space; a mapping continues across input lines until the start of the next mapping: either a single filename followed by a `->' or the opening parenthesis of a filename list.
Comments begin with # and end with a NEWLINE.
The distfile contains a sequence of entries that specify the files to be copied, the destination files to be copied, the destination hosts, and what operations to perform to do the updating. Each entry has one of the following formats:
variable_name '=' name_list [ label: ] source_list '->' destination_list command_list [ label: ] source_list '::' time_stamp_file command_list
The first format is used for defining variables. The second format is used for distributing files to other hosts. The third format is used for making lists of files that have been changed since some given date. The source list specifies a list of files and/or directories on the local host that are to be used as the master copy for distribution. The destination list is the list of hosts to which these files are to be copied. Each file in the source list is added to a list of changes if the file is out of date on the host that is being updated (second format) or if the file is newer than the time stamp file (third format). Labels are optional. They are used to identify a command for partial updates. The colon (:) is used after an optional label, while the double colon (::) is used for making lists of files that have been changed since a certain date (specified by the date/time of the time_stamp file). Typically, only notify is used with the '::' format of the command line.
rdist has a limited macro facility. Macros are only expanded in filename or hostname lists, and in the argument lists of certain primitives. Macros cannot be used to stand for primitives or their options, or the `->' or `::' symbols.
A macro definition is a line of the form:
macro = value
A macro reference is a string of the form:
${macro}
although (as with make(1S)) the braces can be omitted if the macro name consists of just one character.
For the kerberized rdist session, each user may have a private authorization list in a file .k5login in their home directory. Each line in this file should contain a Kerberos principal name of the form principal/instance@realm. If there is a ~/.k5login file, then access is granted to the account if and only if the originater user is authenticated to one of the principals named in the ~/.k5login file. Otherwise, the originating user will be granted access to the account if and only if the authenticated principal name of the user can be mapped to the local account name using the authenticated-principal-name -> local-user-name mapping rules. The .k5login file (for access control) comes into play only when Kerberos authentication is being done.
The shell meta-characters: [, ], {, }, * and ? are recognized and expanded (on the local host only) just as they are with csh(1). Metacharacters can be escaped by prepending a backslash.
The ~ character is also expanded in the same way as with csh; however, it is expanded separately on the local and destination hosts.
File names that do not begin with `/' or `~' are taken to be relative to user's home directory on each destination host; they are not relative to the current working directory. Multiple file names must be enclosed within parentheses.
The following primitives can be used to specify actions rdist is to take when updating remote copies of each file.
install [-b] [-h] [-i] [-R] [-v] [-w] [-y] [newname]
The options for install have the same semantics as their command line counterparts, but are limited in scope to a particular map. The login name used on the destination host is the same as the local host unless the destination name is of the format login@host. In that case, the update is performed under the username login.
notify address ...
that lists the files updated and any errors that may have occurred. If an address does not contain a `@host' suffix, rdist uses the name of the destination host to complete the address.
except filename ...
except_pat pattern ...
special [filename] ... "command-line"
The default working directory for the shell executing each command-line is the user's home directory on the remote host.
The rdist command is IPv6-enabled. See ip6(7P). IPv6 is not currently supported with Kerberos V5 authentication.
Example 1 A Sample distfile
The following sample distfile instructs rdist to maintain identical copies of a shared library, a shared-library initialized data file, several include files, and a directory, on hosts named hermes and magus. On magus, commands are executed as super-user. rdist notifies merlin@druid whenever it discovers that a local file has changed relative to a timestamp file. (Parentheses are used when the source or destination list contains zero or more names separated by white-space.)
HOSTS = ( hermes root@magus ) FILES = ( /usr/local/lib/libcant.so.1.1 /usrlocal/lib/libcant.sa.1.1 /usr/local/include/{*.h} /usr/local/bin ) (${FILES}) -> (${HOSTS}) install -R ; ${FILES} :: /usr/local/lib/timestamp notify merlin@druid ;
~/.rhosts
/etc/host.equiv
/tmp/rdist*
$HOME/.k5login
/etc/krb5/krb5.conf
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
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csh(1), ed(1), make(1S), sh(1), in.rshd(1M), stat(2), hosts.equiv(4), krb5.conf(4), attributes(5), krb5_auth_rules(5), ip6(7P)
A complaint about mismatch of rdist version numbers may really stem from some problem with starting your shell, for example, you are in too many groups.
The super-user does not have its accustomed access privileges on NFS mounted file systems. Using rdist to copy to such a file system may fail, or the copies may be owned by user "nobody".
Source files must reside or be mounted on the local host.
There is no easy way to have a special command executed only once after all files in a directory have been updated.
Variable expansion only works for name lists; there should be a general macro facility.
rdist aborts on files that have a negative modification time (before Jan 1, 1970).
There should be a "force" option to allow replacement of non-empty directories by regular files or symlinks. A means of updating file modes and owners of otherwise identical files is also needed.
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