tentakel README

$Id: README,v 1.14 2003/04/17 11:18:50 cran Exp $


Tentakel is a simple program for executing the same command on many
hosts in parallel using ssh or rsh. 

It can make use of several sets of hosts that are defined in files
called "hostlists". These hostlists are stored in the $HOME/.tentakel/
directory.  There must exist at least one hostlist with the name
"default". The hostlists contain hostnames or IP addresses, one per
line. You can insert comments in the hostlists by using "#" as the first
character of that line.

For the hosts that are found running the command is executed
asynchronously. That means tentakel will wait for all children to finish
and then print the results to the screen with seperators between each
hosts output.

Usage examples:

  $ tentakel -l suse7.2_hosts sudo rpm -Fvh http://softserv/somepackageupdate.rpm
  $ tentakel -l debian_hosts sudo apt-get update \&\& apt-get upgrade
  $ tentakel -l unix_hosts -q shutdown -h +10m "We are going down for maintenance"

For more information on available optione please refer to the manpage
tentakel(1).

The project homepage is: http://tentakel.sourceforge.net/
