--- On Tue, 8/4/09, Jerry Geis geisj@pagestation.com wrote:
How do admins handle a situation with many boxes like 50 for example. If I wish to tell 50 boxes to run a handful of commands - how is that done? (I mean without actually logging into 1,2,3,4...X and executing the commands)
You could use a cluster shell like C3 or pdsh for this. Both are open source projects. With C3, for instance, you can define your nodes as part of a cluster and then simply run shell commands against the entire cluster or, if wanted, against a sub set of nodes.