Hello, We manage more then 2k linux installations and we don't use any distributed shells. Actually we use this script:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/multy-command/ What it does is take a command and executes it in parallel or sequential on a list of servers. Best regards, Marian > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Prentice Bisbal <[email protected]> > > Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 15:43:04 > > To: Beowulf Mailing List<[email protected]> > > Subject: [Beowulf] looking for good distributed shell program > > > > Beowulfers, > > > > I'm looking for something that isn't exactly cluster-related, but this > > is something that most cluster admins would be familiar with. I'm > > looking for a good distributed shell, something similar to tentakel or > > gsh. I figure all of you probably have recommendations/opinions on the > > best ones. > > > > I'm familiar with tentakel, but I find it lacking in a few areas, and > > it's recently been abandoned by it's developer. The author of tentakel > > recommends gsh, but gsh doesn't allow to create pre-defined groups of > > hosts in a config file. > > > > Here's my wish list: > > > > 1. Be able to maintain a central config file with different group > > definitiosn with in it. > > > > 2. Run the commands in parallel and organize the output > > > > 3. Be able specify the user the command runs as on the command-line, so > > I don't have to become root just to run a single command as root. > > > > 4. Be able to subtract systems from a group or add additional ones on > > the commandline. For example, if I have group "cluster", but node05 is > > down, so I want to omit it and add desktop1 instead, I could do > > something like. > > > > <command> -g cluster-node05+desktop1 > > > > I used a program with these features about 10 years ago. I think it was > > gsh or dsh, but the gsh and dsh I've found today, are different than > > what I used 10 years ago. > > > > any recommendations? -- Best regards, Marian Marinov
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