[TriLUG] Issuing a command to multiple machines simultaneously

[Marc Wiatrowski]

nobodies mentioned cfengine...

On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 14:20 -0400, Paul McLanahan wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I manage a few Linux boxen at $work. They're not all exactly alike,
> but the are all running Ubuntu Hardy Server, and quite often I have to
> issue the same command to all of them to do things like package
> upgrades, installs, etc.. I'd like to setup a system that will allow
> me to issue the command in a client of some type, which will cause the
> command to run of all of the machines, and send the output back to me.
> I've seen this done in the past, but I can not seem find how it was
> done, and my googling has turned up a couple of rsh tutorials, but
> unless I'm missing something, just rsh isn't going to get this done.
> 
> Thanks for any advice,
> 
> Paul McLanahan