Subject: Re: more work in rc.d [was Re: rc, rc.shutdown proposed change]
To: Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 03/15/2000 21:45:01
On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 06:34:49PM -0500, Michael Richardson wrote:
> 
>   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 :-)

Ok, I see what you mean. My users are not root on their machines so
I only rdist the root-owned parts and they can play with the rest.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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