On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 02:30:34PM +0000, Edd Barrett wrote:

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> On 14/11/2007, Mikel Lindsaar  wrote:

> > Hello all,

> > I want to automate handling them as much as possible and would like

> > some list suggestions on reading materials, software, or web howtos.

>

> The multixterm program that comes with expect is useful for ssh'ing to

> lots of machines and running the same commands on them all.

See also sysutils/clusterit, which has several tools useful for this

purpose. I use dsh to run oneliners on groups of machines, though

you can use it interactively, too.
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