On 8 Jul 2002, Wolfgang Rupprecht wrote:

>
> > You REALLY don't want to use rsh/rlogin.  OpenBSD has now removed
> > it from the tree; a decision I agree with entirely and encourage
> > elsewhere.
>
> What do those folks do for cron-based rdist-ing of files from their
> main server to the other machines on their net?
>
> One of the biggest labor-saving cron tasks here is a weekly rdist that
> makes sure that everything but a handful of conf files are exactly the
> same on all the machines.  Who wants to maintain N systems by hand?

	I tend to use pkgsrc/sysutils/rconfig (uses rdist over ssh and
	handles the differing config files and hetrogenous OS version/
	architectures in an easy fashion).

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