How To Install rdist on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rdist
on CentOS 7.
What is rdist
The RDist program maintains identical copies of files on multiple hosts. If possible, RDist will preserve the owner, group, mode and mtime of files and it can update programs that are executing. Install rdist if you need to maintain identical copies of files on multiple hosts.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install rdist
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rdist.
Install rdist on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install rdist
using yum
by running the following command:
Install rdist on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install rdist
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall rdist on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the rdist
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rdist
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.