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SHIP(8) System Manager's Manual SHIP(8) NAME ship, shipstat - automatic software distribution SYNOPSIS ship [ option ... ] [ file ... ] shipstat DESCRIPTION Ship distributes the named files to other computers, where the files are installed under the same names. Shipping privileges are determined by the network manager on the receiving machine; see svcmgr(8). Destinations are taken from environment variable dest, or from if dest is empty. If a destination is the name of a file in it is replaced by the contents of that file, each word of which is then examined in the same way. Otherwise the destination is a network address. The sending machine is omitted unless explicitly named in the environment variable, or unless option -f is present or environment variable force has a non- empty value. Ship uses inspkg and mkpkg(8) to do its work. Links among the named files are imitated on the receiving computer, and named files that do not exist on the sending computer are deleted on the receiving com- puter. Other options are the same as those of mkpkg: -v Emit run- ning com- men- tary on the stan- dard er- ror file. -Dpath1=path2 Pre- tend that any file name that be- gins with path1 re- ally be- gins with path2. Rel- a- tive path- names are ex- tended to full path- names be- fore com- par- i- son. -Xfileand In- clude in the pack- age in- struc- tions to ex- e- cute the shell com- mand or run the shell script file af- ter all files have been in- stalled. Only one of these op- tions may oc- cur. The file name in -X is af- fected by -D. Shipments are generally acknowledged by mail after each destination has been tried at least once; see asd(8) for details. Shipstat reports the status of all its caller's incomplete shipments, with the most recent first. FILES distribution lists /usr/lib/asd/dest/default default distribution list /usr/spool/asd/logname outgoing spool directories SEE ALSO mkpkg(8), asd(8), svcmgr(8) BUGS The -f option, if given, must be the first option and must not be com- bined with any other. SHIP(8)