Sync config files

[Joost Waversveld]

Maybe you can check unison (http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/), 
we use that one. Works great!

Glenn Steen wrote:
> On 27/10/06, Will McDonald <wmcdonald at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 25/10/06, Roald <roalda at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi!
>> >
>> > As I am now setting up the third MailScanner-server, I was wondering 
>> what
>> > you use to sync the config files? /etc/MailScanner and /etc/mail  
>> are very
>> > similar and previously I have been ssh'ing to both servers and 
>> making the
>> > changes when adding new domains etc. But now I would like to sync them.
>> > rsync are one alternative, any better? I have looked at cfengine, 
>> but it
>> > seems a bit overkill for my task.
>>
>> You could use something like Rdist over SSH with some custom
>> post-install 'cmdspecial' steps to tailor each config to its server if
>> necessary?
>>
>> Will.
> 
> I always found rdist to be slightly yucky (:-), and would probably
> prefer a scripted solution around rsynch (ssh mode) or lftp (mirror
> function) and straight ssh for any postprocessing. But I suppose one
> always tend to favour the tools one knows best (it's been quite a few
> years since last I fiddled with rdist)....:-).
> Those mirroring tools wouldn't have the pre/post-processing inbuilt,
> but then... would there really be any need for such, in this case?
>