[TriLUG] Issuing a command to multiple machines simultaneously

[Cristóbal Palmer]

On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Paul McLanahan <pmclanahan at gmail.com> wrote:
>  I'd like to setup a system that will allow
> me to issue the command in a client of some type, which will cause the
> command to run of all of the machines, and send the output back to me.
> I've seen this done in the past, but I can not seem find how it was
> done, and my googling has turned up a couple of rsh tutorials, but
> unless I'm missing something, just rsh isn't going to get this done.

I haven't used it, but I've heard at least two people swear by Puppet:

http://reductivelabs.com/projects/puppet/

Maybe they'll pipe up...

Cheers,
-- 
Cristóbal M. Palmer
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while fleeing from the librarians."