rsync - Jan 2003 - Simulating rdist?

rsync is great for syncing 2 directory trees, but I want to maintain 
a master source tree on one machine and copy that to multiple 
machines. i.e. basically what rdist does

The only way I can see of doing this with rsync is to have multiple 
cron jobs

0 * * * * rsync ... machine1:...
0 * * * * rsync ... machine2:...
...and so on.

Is there a more elegant/compact way of doing this?

Thanks

See the BATCH MODE section in the rsync 2.5.5 man page.  It's stil pretty
new and experimental, so it may not do what you want, but currently it's the
best that rsync can do.

- Dave Dykstra

On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 04:39:06PM -0000, va_public
<yahoogroups@vikas.mailshell.com> wrote:
> rsync is great for syncing 2 directory trees, but I want to maintain 
> a master source tree on one machine and copy that to multiple 
> machines. i.e. basically what rdist does
> 
> The only way I can see of doing this with rsync is to have multiple 
> cron jobs
> 
> 0 * * * * rsync ... machine1:...
> 0 * * * * rsync ... machine2:...
> ....and so on.
> 
> Is there a more elegant/compact way of doing this?
> 
> Thanks
> 
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