I'd have to agree with the PuTTY maintainers.

This seems like a dangerous "feature" to me; While being able to send the same 
command to 60+ servers is a good idea, sending two commands in a row to 60+ 
servers wouldn't be. You're making the assumption that the first command 
worked, and worked the way you expected it to, on all 60+ servers. If it failed 
on any one server, then the next command could be the beginnings of a complete 
disaster.

I'd much rather have a tool that could send a command or script to the 60 
servers, and then report back to me centrally the results of those 60 commands, 
especially any results that didn't agree with what I expected them to be. To 
"blindly" send 60 commands and hope that they all worked, and then "go to the 
movies" would put me into cardiac arrest.

I guess your mileage may vary....

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-----Original Message-----
From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kohrs, Steven
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 10:49 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Putty users

On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 10:28, Fargusson.Alan wrote:
> Just one caution: you should have a current backup of you system before you 
> import into the registry.  If something goes wrong with the import there is a 
> high probability you will have to re-install Windows.
>


Just out of curiosity, how many people are managing their Linux servers
from a Windows workstation?  How many from Linux workstations?  How many
from others?

The reason I ask, is that I could never (and would never) use PuTTY to
manage more than one Linux server.  I've become completely dependent on
Konsole's ability to "spray" the input from one session to multiple
sessions.  Along with its Profile support, I click one icon and have 60+
sessions open, login to all 60+ servers at once, make my change to all
60+ servers at once, logout, go to a movie, come back to work and tell
the boss I just finished.

PuTTY's maintainer has official stated this is a worthless feature that
will never be included in PuTTY.

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/terminal-fanout.html


To stop the flames, I use PuTTY when I have to and love it for that.

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