Re: ssh integration

[Ole Tange]

On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 5:53 PM, Mag Gam <magawake@gmail.com> wrote:

> Are there more example of ssh with GP?

I have no idea what GP is. General Purpose? Georgia-Pacific? General
practitioner?

> A typical task for me is to do the following.
>
> ssh into 60 severs and get a checksum of a file.
> What is the best way to do this? Also, I would like to have SSH
> options such as, "batchmode, timeout, etc..."

It seems more and more people want to use GNU Parallel this way - even
though there are specialized tools for doing just that. See:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/parallel/2011-01/msg00011.html

--timeout is currently not implemented, but --retries is.

http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/man.html#differences_between_clusterssh_and_gnu_parallel


/Ole