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[Oliver Fromme]

jason andrade wrote:
 > On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Oliver Fromme wrote:
 > > That won't be possible, at least for me.  I am FTP admin at
 > > ftp7.de, but I am not root on that machine, so I cannot
 > > create ssh accounts.  Even if I was root there, I wouldn't
 > > be allowed to create ssh accounts for "strangers", because
 > > it is a university machine.  (It doesn't matter whether the
 > > account is restricted to one command via an ssh key.)
 > 
 > that's a bummer.  but perhaps we can come up with two sets
 > of triggers.  one is via ssh, the other is the more normal
 > 'polling' system.  the master updates a file.. which is
 > periodically checked on some clients, and if the date in it
 > is later than they previously had, it causes an update ?

Yes, that would work, I guess.

However, what's wrong with the e-mail idea?

Regards
   Oliver

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