Can I use rcp.el to copy a local file to several hosts ?

2000-02-25 Thread Gerd Bavendiek
Hi, I'm working as system admin. Very often I have to change config files on a couple of unix boxes. So I edit a local copy of e.g. /etc/hosts, copy the file to the targets and still have the master on my laptops disk. For this task I wrote a simple lisp routine (forgive me, I'm by no means a li

Re: Can I use rcp.el to copy a local file to several hosts ?

2000-02-25 Thread Kai Großjohann
Gerd Bavendiek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks a lot for your hints. So I did the exercise. Everything works > well as long as the file do not exist. The second copy fails: > > Signaling: (file-already-exists "/r@rcp:root@momo:/root/ho") `C-h f rcp-handle-copy-file RET' prints that this fu

Re: Can I use rcp.el to copy a local file to several hosts ?

2000-02-25 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Gerd Bavendiek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm working as system admin. Very often I have to change config files > on a couple of unix boxes. So I edit a local copy of e.g. /etc/hosts, > copy the file to the targets and still have the master on my laptops > disk. [...] > So

Re: Can I use rcp.el to copy a local file to several hosts ?

2000-02-11 Thread Gerd Bavendiek
Daniel Pittman writes: > On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Gerd Bavendiek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm working as system admin. Very often I have to change config files > > on a couple of unix boxes. So I edit a local copy of e.g. /etc/hosts, > > copy the file to the targets and still have the mas