At Wed, 13 May 2009 01:40:54 +0200,
Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> 
> Package: dsh
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hi.
> 
> I'm not sure if this is a bug, or my understanding of dsh is just wrong ^^
> 
> It's clear that giving input to interactive programs (e.g. aptitude)  
> is quite difficult when doing concurrent execution (btw: what happens  
> with stdout in this case?! is it simply printed as it comes? ...  
> especially with curses-like stuff as aptitude this does not work).

Yes, --show-machines will prepend entries with machine name for
better readability, but it sucks when it comes to handling curses
programs.

You tried -i  option?

> 
> But I'd have expected that in wait-shell mode this should work,...
> e.g. dsh -g someGroup -w -- aptitude
> would invoke aptitude on every machine (but not concurrently) giving  
> me the same output and input possibilities as if I'd have logged in  
> directly with ssh.

Strange, it should work, not quite sure with curses programs.  Without
-i or -M, input and output should be sent mostly verbatim, so should
work. Not quite sure why it's not working.








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