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[Bogdan Costescu]

On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Steven Timm wrote:

> The rsync script is a good idea and something we are thinking
> of implementing--only problem is...how do you handle the
> situation when a node happens to be down during a push?

One solution that I'm using (not for the clusters, but for the several
tens of workstations, some of which run sometimes Windows) is to add a
"pull" to the startup scripts. If it's already up-to-date, nothing will
happen because of the smart syncronization; if it's old, an update takes
place.

Sincerely,

Bogdan Costescu

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