How to Update More Than One AutoClient System With Its Back File System

1. Create a file containing the names of the systems you want to synchronize with their back file systems.

   The file can be located anywhere. For example, you could put the file in /tmp or /home. If you run the autosync command without arguments and several systems fail to update, put the names of the systems that failed to update in this file. For example, enter one name per line.

2. Use the autosync command as follows to update all AutoClient systems in the host_file file.

   % autosync -H host_file

   In this command,

   -H	Specifies a file containing the names of all AutoClient systems to update.
   host_file	Is the name of the file containing the names of all AutoClient systems in the network you want to update.

Example of Updating More Than One AutoClient System Using a File

The following example shows how to update all AutoClient systems in the host file net_hosts:

For example, the contents of net_hosts might be:

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