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Rdist Home: http://www.magnicomp.com/
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This is version 6.1 of Rdist from USC. It is based on rdist from
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4.3BSD (classic). It includes all fixes for all bugs known to the
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CSRG Berkeley folks. It has been running at USC and numerous other
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sites for some time now on a wide variety of platforms.
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This version of rdist is not directly compatible with rdist
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distributed with 4.3BSD and subsequent vendor releases, but does
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indirectly provide full backward compatibility.
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This version of rdist does not need to be setuid "root" at all. Rdist
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now uses the rsh(1c) [remote command] program to make connections to
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remote hosts, instead of making the connection directly. This
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eliminates the need to be run as "root". Many thanks to Chris
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Siebenmann <cks@utcc.utoronto.ca> and John DiMarco
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<jdd@cdf.toronto.edu> who came up with an rsh version of rcmd() that
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makes this possible.
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