FreeBSD's 'rsink'-like package?

Matthew Palmer mpalmer at hezmatt.org
Thu Sep 1 07:44:01 UTC 2005


On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 09:06:02AM +0200, Martin Marcher wrote:
> Mittwoch 31 August 2005 13:41, Soo-Hyun Choi:
> > In FreeBSD system, multiple systems can be managed (in terms of
> > installing an application package) from a master machine using 'rsink'
> > package. Is there any similar command in Ubuntu to take advantage of
> > this functionality?
> 
> I know that debian (at some time) used to recommend dsh (distributed shell) 
> where you can login to multiple machines in a single shell.

Aiee.  That only works if all the machines are identical -- a terrible
assumption.

For basic "all packages together now", look at pkgsync.  To do the job
properly, use cfengine.

- Matt
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