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Options

-o offset

Same as specifying an offset as an argument. The offset is given

in decimal.

-r Behave like ramsize.

-v Behave like vidmode.

-R Behave like rootflags.

rdist

rdist [options] [names]

System administration command. Remote file distribution client

program. rdist maintains identical copies of files over multiple

hosts. It reads commands from a file named distfile to direct the

updating of files and/or directories. An alternative distfile can be

specified with the -f option or the -c option.

Options

-a num

Do not update filesystems with fewer than num bytes free.

-A num

Specify the minimum number of inodes that rdist requires.

-c name [login@]host[:dest]

Interpret the arguments as a small distfile, where login is the

user to log in as, host is the destination host, name is the local

file to transfer, and dest is the remote name where the file

should be installed.

-d var=value

Define var to have value. This option defines or overrides vari-

able definitions in the distfile. Set the variable var to value.

-D Debugging mode.

-f file

Read input from file (by default, distfile). If file is -, read from

standard input.

-F Execute all commands sequentially, without forking.

-l options

Specify logging options on the local machine.

-L options

Specify logging options on the ...