[lug] distributed shell or ssh ?

[Michael J. Pedersen]

On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 03:33:25PM -0600, Charles Morrison wrote:
> 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.

The closest solution of which I'm aware is on these lines:

for i in list of ip addresses ; do ssh $i command ; done

But that's not truly simultaneous. Depending on what command is, it could even
be non-feasible to do.

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