If you&#39;re at the point where you have to run the same commands on multiple servers, you should really be looking at puppet or cfengine. They really reduce the need to be interacting with the servers, and ensure consistency (and by consistency I mean &quot;fewer fat fingers&quot;).<div>
<br></div><div>I even gave a presentation mentioning the latter (<a href="http://www.muug.mb.ca/meetings/lamp_tuning_seanwalberg.pdf">http://www.muug.mb.ca/meetings/lamp_tuning_seanwalberg.pdf</a>) and have written about the former (<a href="http://m.linuxjournal.com/article/10046">http://m.linuxjournal.com/article/10046</a>)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Sean<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Gilbert E. Detillieux <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:gedetil@cs.umanitoba.ca">gedetil@cs.umanitoba.ca</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">At last night&#39;s meeting, during the round-table discussion, someone<br>
asked about setting up simultaneous SSH connections to multiple host<br>
sytsems.<br>
<br>
Here&#39;s the program I was thinking of...<br>
<br>
ClusterSSH: <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/clusterssh/" target="_blank">http://sourceforge.net/projects/clusterssh/</a><br>
<br>
For MacOS X, there&#39;s also csshX that interfaces to the Terminal.app...<br>
<br>
csshX: <a href="http://code.google.com/p/csshx/" target="_blank">http://code.google.com/p/csshx/</a><br>
<br>
Adam also mentioned PSSH...<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.theether.org/pssh/docs/0.2.3/pssh-HOWTO.html" target="_blank">http://www.theether.org/pssh/docs/0.2.3/pssh-HOWTO.html</a><br>
<a href="http://www.theether.org/pssh/" target="_blank">http://www.theether.org/pssh/</a><br>
<br>
Both PSSH and Cluster SSH are described in the following article, along<br>
with yet another option called Multixterm...<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.ubuntugeek.com/execute-commands-simultaneously-on-multiple-servers-using-psshcluster-sshmultixterm.html" target="_blank">http://www.ubuntugeek.com/execute-commands-simultaneously-on-multiple-servers-using-psshcluster-sshmultixterm.html</a><br>

<br>
Hope that helps!<br>
<br>
--<br>
<font color="#888888">Gilbert E. Detillieux           E-mail: &lt;<a href="mailto:gedetil@muug.mb.ca">gedetil@muug.mb.ca</a>&gt;<br>
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</font></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Sean Walberg &lt;<a href="mailto:sean@ertw.com">sean@ertw.com</a>&gt;    <a href="http://ertw.com/">http://ertw.com/</a><br>
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