>>>>> "Manuel" == Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr> writes:
    Manuel> On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 11:51:01AM -0500, Michael Richardson wrote:
    >> okay, but how do I share /usr/pkg between machines?  There are things that
    >> I may want all of my cluster to run.

    Manuel> If you have a cluster of similar machines I would recommend setting up
    Manuel> rdist :) This is usefull for all system config files (and you have only
    Manuel> one place to backup).

  rdist works fine for files in /etc, but starts to fail if the machines are
only slightly similiar --- i.e. the local user still gets to install stuff,
which is why they have a /usr/local. 
  When I say I want all of my cluster to run things, I really mean that I
want them to have access to the same set of tools :-)

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