[K12OSN] OT linux utility to run command on many systems simultaneously

dalen dalen at czexan.net
Wed Mar 3 18:10:03 UTC 2004


dalen wrote:

> I seem to recall reading about a linux utility that can run a command 
> on many machines at once, but I can't remember the name.  Does anyone 
> know of a utility like this?  There are many times that I need to run 
> the same command on many machines.  For example, say I want to add a 
> new user "joe" to machine moe larry and curly.   I would then run 
> "some_util adduser joe" and the user would be added to all machines 
> listed in a config file via ssh.

Thanks for all the replies everyone:)  I'll look into cssh or the 
scripting that Chris mentioned.  I might thumb through my old Linux 
Magazines as well.

Thanks,

Dale





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