Networking Guide
Chapter 18, Distributing files remotely over TCP/IP

New rdist features

New rdist features

The most notable new feature of rdist is that it is broken into two separate programs: a client and a server. The client portion uses rcmd(TC) to bind to a privileged TCP/IP port so it can communicate with the rshd(ADMN) network server in order to execute a noninteractive shell on a remote machine. Therefore it must be run as root.

In addition, rdist allows you to: