Beowulfers, I decided to go with this gsh:
http://outflux.net/unix/software/gsh/ I looked at pdsh, and it looks powerful, but more complicated, too. This gsh does everything I need, and has a simple config file syntax as well as exactly the command sytnax I was looking for. I already have it completely configured for my environment. And due to the simpler syntax, it will be easier to get my coworkers to use it, too. ;) Thanks for all your replies. Those of you who voted for pdsh, don't worry, you're votes weren't wasted I still plan to tinker with pdsh. -- 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? > > -- Prentice Bisbal Linux Software Support Specialist/System Administrator School of Natural Sciences Institute for Advanced Study Princeton, NJ _______________________________________________ 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
