Solaris

Developers write application programs in a directory say /oraas/testappl. Once they complete testing they copy application files to /oraas/liveappl.

I would like to do:- As soon as any file is copied to /oraas/liveappl, I would like to copy the same file to /oraas/liveappl on another server. Now it is done with SSH. But I like to do it without ssh, as developers can ssh to that server !

Can I pick file which is copied from the directory and copy to another server automatically. Any idea on script / cron etc ?

thanks

Without ssh: ftp, tape, nfs mounted disks. Since you want an instant approach, I would guess you want to use nfs.

Please advise what connectivity method you want, then we can go from there.

By the way, I don't understand why you want to avoid sftp/scp (all based on ssh) . Just because someone else can use a network protocol does not automatically make it a bad idea for you to use the same one.

Thanks jim for your reply.
on Server-A: /oraas/testappl ->testappl owner, /oraas/liveappl ->oracle owner
on Server-B: /oraas/liveappl ->oracle owner

we can do ftp,etc but for that you need manual intervention. Is there any way to PICK the COPIED file from Server-A & copy to Server-B (/oraas/liveappl), Automatically ? I don't want Testappl user of Server-A to have any access on Server-B !

I am sorry, if I could not explain my requirement properly.

Hi there,

Have you tried this:

1: Create a regular user account and home directory for your user
# /usr/sbin/adduser jones
2: Add the user to the AllowedUsers in your /etc/ssh/sshd_config file
AllowUsers jones smith
3: Restart sshd
# /etc/init.d/sshd restart
4: Check that you can login remotely as that user - ssh and sftp should both work
% ssh jones@yourhost
% sftp jones@yourhost
5: Figure out where you sftp-server executable lives - look in /etc/ssh/sshd_config for this line:
Subsystem sftp /usr/lib/openssh/sftp-server
6: Edit /etc/passwd and replace the default shell for your user with this path
jones:x:1004:1004:Rob Jones,,,:/home/jones:/bin/bash becomes: jones:x:1004:1004:Rob Jones,,,:/home/jones:/usr/lib/openssh/sftp-server
7: Connecting with sftp should now work normally but if you try ssh you will get prompted for the password at which point nothing will happen.

try rsync command, and if you dont want to give password to anyone, just create an user and generate the public keys to enable password less ssh between the hosts, and after you may execute rsync using that user with the help of cron.

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or you may also go with unison tool in linux.

Thank you guys....

Rsync 100% will do what you want. You can put it in cron to sync however often you want.