Have you ever seen pdsh? https://computing.llnl.gov/linux/pdsh.html
Compile it against the genders library (also provided by llnl) and you have all of the features you need. -Brian -- Brian Smith Senior Systems Administrator IT Research Computing, University of South Florida 4202 E. Fowler Ave. ENB308 Office Phone: +1 813 974-1467 Organization URL: http://rc.usf.edu On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 16:54 -0400, Prentice Bisbal wrote: > I think I found what I was looking for. Not the gsh the tentakel author > recommends, > > http://guichaz.free.fr/gsh/ > > but this one: > > http://outflux.net/unix/software/gsh/ > > It has everything I was looking for (so far). > > Prentice > > > Prentice Bisbal wrote: > > 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? > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
