[CentOS] question on managing multiple boxes

2009-08-04 Thread Jerry Geis
How do admins handle a situation with many boxes like 50 for example. If I wish to tell 50 boxes to run a handful of commands - how is that done? (I mean without actually logging into 1,2,3,4...X and executing the commands) Thanks, Jerry ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] question on managing multiple boxes

2009-08-04 Thread Alan Sparks
Jerry Geis wrote: How do admins handle a situation with many boxes like 50 for example. If I wish to tell 50 boxes to run a handful of commands - how is that done? (I mean without actually logging into 1,2,3,4...X and executing the commands) Thanks, Jerry

Re: [CentOS] question on managing multiple boxes

2009-08-04 Thread Steve Huff
On Aug 4, 2009, at 3:32 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: How do admins handle a situation with many boxes like 50 for example. If I wish to tell 50 boxes to run a handful of commands - how is that done? one such tool, and links to many others, are here: http://web.taranis.org/shmux/ -steve -- If

Re: [CentOS] question on managing multiple boxes

2009-08-04 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Dienstag, den 04.08.2009, 21:35 +0200 schrieb Alan Sparks: Jerry Geis wrote: How do admins handle a situation with many boxes like 50 for example. If I wish to tell 50 boxes to run a handful of commands - how is that done? (I mean without actually logging into 1,2,3,4...X and executing

Re: [CentOS] question on managing multiple boxes

2009-08-04 Thread nate
Jerry Geis wrote: How do admins handle a situation with many boxes like 50 for example. If I wish to tell 50 boxes to run a handful of commands - how is that done? (I mean without actually logging into 1,2,3,4...X and executing the commands) Depends what the commands have to do. For most of

Re: [CentOS] question on managing multiple boxes

2009-08-04 Thread Peter Hinse
Jerry Geis schrieb: How do admins handle a situation with many boxes like 50 for example. If I wish to tell 50 boxes to run a handful of commands - how is that done? (I mean without actually logging into 1,2,3,4...X and executing the commands) Just found phpAdamoto[1] on freshmeat and will

Re: [CentOS] question on managing multiple boxes

2009-08-04 Thread Matthias Blankenhaus
--- On Tue, 8/4/09, Jerry Geis ge...@pagestation.com wrote: How do admins handle a situation with many boxes like 50 for example. If I wish to tell 50 boxes to run a handful of commands - how is that done? (I mean without actually logging into 1,2,3,4...X  and executing the commands)

Re: [CentOS] question on managing multiple boxes

2009-08-04 Thread Matty
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Jerry Geisge...@pagestation.com wrote: How do admins handle a situation with many boxes like 50 for example. If I wish to tell 50 boxes to run a handful of commands - how is that done? (I mean without actually logging into 1,2,3,4...X  and executing the