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+# configuration file
+
+# used by mrsync.py to find the executables multicaster, multicatcher, trFilelist
+# hopefully, all machines put them in the same place as on the master machine.
+binDir                = '/a/path/name';  # bin
+rBinDir               = binDir;  # for remote target machines.
+
+# This is a general bookkeeping file for mrsync.py.
+# It records start_time and end_time of a mrsync session.
+# Each mrsync.py appends time info into this file.
+# So it should be a path that can be accessed by any machine invoking mrsync.py
+
+multicast_log         = '/path/multicast.log';
+
+#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# The following three file-names are for tmp storage
+#
+# To allow for multiple multicast sessions at the same time, the actual
+# name of the file will be that specified here plus a suffix = .mmddhhmmss
+# The latter (mmddhhmm) is generated by mrsync.py
+# --> It is necessary to clean up old files :))
+#
+
+# This is a path on all target machines for a running multicatcher
+# to catch its stderr output if any.  Usually we don't expect any output in this file.
+# It's there for debugging purpose in case any error event occurs.
+#
+# Set it to /dev/null, if we don't want any output.
+#
+catcher_err_log       = '/a_path/catcher.err';
+
+# The goodTargetsFile is for mrsync.py to output names of the machines that are accessible.
+# It is read by multicaster.
+caster_log_dir        = '/A_PATH/sync/';   
+goodTargetsFile       = caster_log_dir + 'syncing';
+
+# The file path for storing list of to-be-transfered files
+# It is used by multicaster.
+syncFileList          = caster_log_dir + 'syncfile.lst';
+#
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+#
+
+# Path to find the rsync binary
+rsyncPath             = '/usr/local/bin/rsync';
+remote_rsyncPath      = rsyncPath;
+
+#
+reshell               = "rsh";  # can be changed thru command line option
+
+#
+# Do NOT change the following unless you know what you are doing.
+#
+# This is the absolute minimum of rsync options for multicaster
+# rsync is used only to find files that need to be synced.
+#   -- to add other options such as --exclude --include, use command line option
+#      those extra options will be appended to this min_rsync_opt
+min_rsync_opt         = '--rsh=%s -avW --dry-run --delete';
+
+#
+# varioius binary codes used
+#
+# the binary to translate file_list generated by rsync or manually for multicaster
+translate             = 'trFilelist';
+catcher               = 'multicatcher';
+caster                = 'multicaster';
+codes                 = [ translate, catcher, caster];