On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 14:49, Eric Sammons wrote: > For those not familiar with CTELNET, I first saw this product from Sun > included with their cluster software. It allows a user (admin) to, with a > single command, open several windows to any number of hosts. These > windows are telnet connections. With the multiple windows a single > command window also opens. Basically any command that one desires to have > run on all hosts can be entered into the command field of this window. One > can enter commands, Use vi, etc. . . and do so from a single point but > with the actions occurring to any number of connected hosts. > > I have been looking long and hard for such a tool for Linux based on SSH > instead of Telnet or Rlogin. Anyone seen one, know of one? This type of > tool is very useful for both clustered systems and non clustered where > there is a desire to maintain a common configuration across several > systems or when attempting to implement the same change across numerous > systems.
You could certainly build this easily with expect. For common configuration, though, I'd think you'd really want something like cfengine. Adam
