On Monday 15 March 2004, madballs64 at gmx.net (Frank Murphy) wrote:
>Can rsynce be used instead of up2date in Fedora Core 1 (to keep system
>patched),
>which for some reason (since the usb adsl modem was installed) is playing
>silly buggar.
rsync is an entirely different tool than up2date, and couldn't be used to
substitute for it (yes, you could construct pathalogical cases where you used
up2date on one box, and rsync to keep other identical boxes in sync, but why
on earth would you ?)
Niall
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