Subject: Re: `use sup' not tar balls ....
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.ORG>
From: David Brownlee <D.K.Brownlee@city.ac.uk>
List: current-users
Date: 01/15/1995 12:04:07
The problem with people not using sup is that they might miss updates.
How about this idea:
Nighty (or weekly) sun-lamp runs (int the src dir)
'find . ! -type d -ls' into a file, then people can
ftp this down, plus a small schell script that reads
the file line by line & then checks to see if the
info for the file on the local filesystem is different
from the one in the file, it prodices on stdout a list
of these files.
You could run 'cksum `find . ! -type d -ls`', but that
won't have timestamps or sizes.. combining both would
give the best for the more paranoid.
David
D.K.Brownlee@city.ac.uk (MIME). Network Analyst. Postmaster. Hostmaster.
(>=-=<) Telephone: (+44) 171 477 8186. (>=-=<)
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