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| author | steve <steve@FreeBSD.org> | 1997-11-16 13:26:03 +0000 |
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| committer | steve <steve@FreeBSD.org> | 1997-11-16 13:26:03 +0000 |
| commit | c6944bfd2f1015f3c24d7edf3b00b59906ba7826 (patch) | |
| tree | 8025f0de9e11b289e9ba7716011c18221135756e /usr.bin/rdist/rdist.1 | |
| parent | 2c2d3b03307816140f591feb46251497dfdddf8b (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-c6944bfd2f1015f3c24d7edf3b00b59906ba7826.zip FreeBSD-src-c6944bfd2f1015f3c24d7edf3b00b59906ba7826.tar.gz | |
Note in manpage how extraneous output in initialization scripts
can cause rdist to fail.
PR: bin/4954
Reviewed by: wollman
Submitted by: jhs
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/rdist/rdist.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/rdist/rdist.1 | 19 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/rdist/rdist.1 b/usr.bin/rdist/rdist.1 index c8d7a29..e28f243 100644 --- a/usr.bin/rdist/rdist.1 +++ b/usr.bin/rdist/rdist.1 @@ -38,14 +38,14 @@ .Nm rdist .Nd remote file distribution program .Sh SYNOPSIS -.Nm rdist +.Nm .Op Fl nqbRhivwy .Op Fl P Ar rshcmd .Op Fl f Ar distfile .Op Fl d Ar var=value .Op Fl m Ar host .Op Ar name ... -.Nm rdist +.Nm .Op Fl nqbRhivwy .Op Fl P Ar rshcmd .Fl c @@ -402,6 +402,21 @@ A complaint about mismatch of .Nm version numbers may really stem from some problem with starting your shell, e.g., you are in too many groups. +.Pp +.Nm Rdist +relies on +.Xr rcmd 3 +type remote services executing successfully and in silence. +A common error is for non-interactive initialization scripts, like +.Pa .cshrc , +to generate output (or to run other programs which generate output +when not attached to a terminal -- the most frequent offender is +.Xr stty 1 ) . +This extra output will cause +.Nm +to fail with the error message: +.Pp +.Dl rdist: connection failed: version numbers don't match .Sh BUGS Source files must reside on the local host where .Nm |
