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diff --git a/docs/netdiff.txt b/docs/netdiff.txt index 367a201..9f659a6 100644 --- a/docs/netdiff.txt +++ b/docs/netdiff.txt @@ -1,12 +1,16 @@ NAME - netdiff - A netdiff project + netdiff - A simple script to diff a file or a directory of two hosts + over the network. -WTF? - A simple script to diff two files via the network. + This is very helpfull if you want to find out any difference of these + two hosts. - usage - ClusterSSH onto two hosts at the same time and run on both hosts the - same command like: + SYNOPSYS + netdiff HOSTNAME PATH [ADDITIONAL DIFF OPTS] + + USAGE + Cluster-SSH into two hosts at the same time and run on both hosts the + same (simultaneous): netdiff HOSTNAME PATH @@ -14,6 +18,27 @@ WTF? Depending on this the script will decide to be the client or the server role. + And where PATH musst be a full qualified path to a file or a directory. + + Netdiff transfers everything in PATH (recursively and encrypted via + OpenSSL/AES) to the other host and computes a diff of it. + + EXAMPLE + A common use case is to find out the differences of the PAM + configuration. On most systems the PAM configuration is spread into + several small configuration files which are hard to compare by hand + between two hosts. + + Given two hosts one.example.com and two.example.com. Just run this + command on both hosts: + + netdiff one.example.com /etc/pam.d + + The same affect, but the other way around would be the following + command: + + netdiff two.example.com /etc/pam.d + LICENSE See package description or project website. |