On 2/5/2010 8:44 AM, Marcelo M. Garcia wrote: > 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/ Python just seems like something that should be avoided in system management tools. Remember having to do special case things like having to 'yum update python\* yum\*' sometimes to keep the rest of an update from breaking? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com