--On Wednesday, July 20, 2011 11:02:42 PM -0700 RC <cooleyr at gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 10:07:06 -0600 Devin Reade <gdr at gno.org> wrote: >> It should be considered as complementing the automated config >> management tools like cfengine et al, not as a replacement for >> them (they're doing different jobs). > > That's not entirely fair. A little shell scripting and pdsh and pdcp > can certainly do everything cfengine/puppet can do I wasn't referring to pdsh/pdcp; I was referring to pconsole. The reason I said complementing is that sometimes it is good to have stuff under a configuration management system like cfengine/puppet, but sometimes you need to run ad-hoc commands, in an identical fashion, on lots of similar machines, which pconsole is good at (subject to the caveats I previously mentioned). I made no comments on pdsh/pdcp at all, and make no claims on where it fits in the spectrum. Devin