Comment #1979

2012-06-29T15:09:12Z

Thank you for posting this; saved me quite a bit of time and headache.

Comment #1978

2009-02-23T23:07:09Z

I couldn't leave the question unanswered if I was using any non-free software, so I checked it out. I am pretty happy with the results.

festlex-oald

sun-java6-bin

flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound

(festlex is a package I recently installed to get caller-id/name announced audibly, and other than the fact that it causes all calls to hang when the computer is turned off, it's great...)

Comment #1977

2009-02-23T18:23:22Z

Wow. clusterssh is really great. Partly, it is just neat to watch multiple machines all responding to the command typed once.

But, it also saves a bunch of time, since I just have to type them once, rather than multiple times for each server.

And it isn't locked into everything having to being exactly the same (otherwise, you could just write a script), but you can (un)select any given machine at any time to check something or execute custom commands for certain servers. (of course you don't use the same passwords on each server, right?)

The example in the documentation was doing an apt-get, but I've never been thrilled with apt-get in terms of will it always do the right thing for dependencies, etc? I'd rather use aptitude and check everything carefully before running it. And, I'm happy to report that aptitude works nicely as well; I had one server already updated, so I took it out of the cluster early and continued with the other two.

And then when I checked in my configuration files (I keep all of /etc in subversion), I can just type the commands once - I've been meaning to make scripts to do:

svn add `svn stat | grep "^?" | awk '{print $2}'`

(and the analog for svn remove)

but I haven't gotten around to it. I don't really mind typing it once, but typing it in for each server gets annoying...

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