On 2/4/2010 11:45 AM, Alan McKay wrote:
Hey folks,
I stumbled upon this while looking for something else
http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/151340
And it is something I could actually really make use of. But right on that site they list 3 different ones, and so I'm wondering what all is out there and what I should use.
It depends on what you need to do. If you really have enough machines or long-running jobs that a shell loop through them isn't practical, you might want something higher-level like cfengine or puppet, or at least something running under cron to make them independent.