[Glug]Re: [lug] distributed shell or ssh ?

[Charles Morrison]

Many thanks to all for the suggestions. There are many avenues to look at now,
including rdist, which I didn't remember (if I ever knew) existed. 


On Tue, 05 Sep 2000, PC Drew wrote:
> Here is my solution.  It ain't pretty, but it works:
> 
> -- BEGIN FILE doforall.sh --
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> # to be used like: doforall.sh "sudo userdel myuser; sudo rm -rf /export/home/myuser"
> 
> ssh web1 $1
> ssh web2 $1
> ssh bv1 $1
> ssh uat $1
> ssh reports $1
> -- END FILE doforall.sh --
> 
> 
> Now, if you've got RSA keys already setup without passwords, then you don't need to enter anything.  If not,
> then you should try writing it in Expect.
> 
> --
> PC Drew
> 
> "To understand recursion, we must first understand recursion."
> 
> On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Charles Morrison wrote:
> 
> > Greetings,
> > 
> > I was wondering if anyone knows of an easy way to send the same command to
> > multiple servers at once? Then to make it more interesting, with encryption. I
> > know it's possible to script a little program to do this, but I'm thinking a
> > single, command line program that you could feed a list of IPs (in a text file
> > maybe) and have it run the particular command on all of them. If it already
> > exists I don't want to reinvent it.
> > 
> > Chuck