This article has multiple issues. Please help or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these template messages)
This article contains content that is written like an advertisement. Please help by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links, and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view.(August 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)
The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guidelines for products and services. Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted. Find sources: – ···scholar·JSTOR(August 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)
This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: – ···scholar·JSTOR(January 2021) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)
(Learn how and when to remove this template message)
Synctool is an open-sourceconfiguration management system, written by Walter de Jong, systems expert at . Synctool aims to be easy to understand, learn and use. It is built in Python and makes use of SSH (with host or key based authentication) and rsync. It has the following characteristics:
A host can be part of logical groups.
Groups can be nested.
Files are designated a group by means of filename extension.
The 'overlay' directory tree contains the files and directories that should be copied (or 'synced') to the target host.
No specific language is used; scripts can be added in any scripting language.
Scripts can be linked to files to perform actions after a file update.
The 'tasks' directory contains scripts that are not linked to specific files but to host or host groups; these tasks can be used for instance for software package management. Synctool by itself offers limited package management tools.
