Alan McKay wrote: >> 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. > > cfengine or puppet (or something else - slackmaster?) are where I want > to be eventually - but in the immediate term something like this would > help a lot. e.g bouncing my 4 front-end apache servers on 4 > different boxes. That sort of thing. > > I was actually going to start another "configuration management redux" > thread as a follow up to a thread I started a few months ago. > > Hi This is another interesting tool: https://fedorahosted.org/func/ Regards mg.