Re: ssh integration

[Alex Copeland]

Umm... GP, gnu-parallel would be my guess.

Alex

On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 9:07 AM, Ole Tange <tange@gnu.org> wrote:
> 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
>
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