Copying files from a server to a centralized area.

[Russell Conner]

I searched for this and I am unable to find a reference for this.

 

I am trying to send files to a central location, a repository server, I would perfer that it not be an NFS copy, or a scripted copy (ie " scp /etc/somefile repohost:/hosts/$(host)/etc/somefile " ) but rather use the copy facility.

 

But it seems to only pull files, is there a switch that makes it push files?

 

My second option was run a special class on the repository that pulled files from everwhere, but I really dont like this, and I had some problems. I tried something like this:

 

host_list = ( host1 host2 )

 

and then

 

copy:

 

 /etc/test.file dest=/hosts/ALL/$(host_list)/etc/test.file server=repohost

 

 

part of this would be to auto create the required directory stucture, say if I added /var/apache/conf/httpd.conf to the copy list to the repository server.

 

Thank you in advance