rdist command (same date in both servers)

[Manuales]

Hi my friends !!!!

How can i make to have same date file from remote server to local server when is executed rdist command?

Thanks, Manuales.

[Ivan Ferreira · Accepted solution]

I'm not sure of what you need but you can use the touch command to modify the date of files after you transfer it. You could use NTP to synchronize the date/time of the servers.

[Manuales]

well, i'll explain it to you ...
i have a server called "a" and other server called "b", in server "a" i have a file called "patito" this file in server "b" has a different date then i executed rdist command to file "patito"
"patito" is same release in server "a" and server "b" but the date of this file in server "a" and "b" is different, i has seen that if the file in server "b" not exists then its replicate with same date but if this file exists in server "b" then it has other date ....

how can i have same date altought the file exists?

Thanks, Manuales

[Bob Ingersoll]

By default rdist preserves the mtime of the source file. From the rdist man page:

"It preserves the owner, group, mode, and modification time of files if possible and can update programs that are executing."

It sounds like rdist is not copying the file to the target for some reason.

[Geoff Wild]

How are you using rdist? can you post your distfile?

Example, one of mine is:

# cat distfile
BWPDR = ( svr1102 )

#
# File systems to be copied over to the DR host.
# Don't use -R in install - so as not to remove files on destination host
BWPADM = /home/bwpadm

bwpadm: ( ${BWPADM} ) -> ( ${BWPDR} )
install -w ;



And I call it from cron via a script like this:

# cat /app/admin/drp/update-binaries.sh
#! /bin/sh

# Keep the DRP copy of the bwpadm up-to-date.
# Currently the files are in:
#
# /home/bwpadm/DR
#
# See the rdist(1M) distfile for a list of exclusions.

DRPDIR=/app/admin/drp
DRPHOST=svr1102

HOST=`/usr/bin/uname -n`
mount | grep /home > /dev/null 2>&1
if [ $? -eq 0 ]
then
/usr/sbin/vgexport -p -s -v -m /home/bwpadm/DR/vg10.map /dev/vg10
( su - bwpadm -c "rdist -f $DRPDIR/distfile bwpadm"; ) 2>&1 |\
tee $DRPDIR/drp.log 2>&1 |\
mailx -s "bwpadm DRP rdist output" me@mydomain.com
fi


Rgds...Geoff