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From: raman@clunix.msu.edu (R. Padmanabhan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: rdist 6.1.0 on FreeBSD
Date: 15 Sep 1995 16:11:39 -0400
Organization: Michigan State University
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I compiled rdist 6.1.0 on Sun sparc running SunOS 4.1.3_u1, Linux 
and FreeBSD 2.1.0 - the SNAP version.  It compiles easily on Sun
and Linux; under FreeBSD, there is no config template for this
OS, so I faked it into using bsdi as the OS.  Now it compiled.

WHen I rdist from Sun to Linux, it works fine.  If I repeat the
rdist, it works also.  When I rdist from Sun to FreeBSD, it
works if the file or directory is not present on FreeBSD but
when I repeat it, I get a segmentation fault on the FreeBSD
side.  I get a rdistd.core file on FreeBSD.  If I rdist from
FreeBSD to Sun or Linux, again the error occurs on the FreeBSD 
side with a rdist.core generated.  

Has anyone compiled and run rdist 6.1.0 from Sun, Linux and 
FreeBSD without problems?  I need to be able to rdist from
Sun to both Linux and FreeBSD.  The stock rdist from FreeBSD
would not work at all and complains about version mismatch in
all cases.

Thanks for any help

Raman Padmanabhan
MSU Computer Lab
raman@clunix.msu.edu