From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N3Zrc-0004aN-KR for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:36:48 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 783C6E094C; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:36:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-iw0-f187.google.com (mail-iw0-f187.google.com [209.85.223.187]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AD8AE094C for ; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:36:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iwn17 with SMTP id 17so1538136iwn.10 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:36:47 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=9mZ9CDFw/yZkd7VazyPqBu+pEboPftgZnwCgoFgVNi0=; b=NMpEtrtZseJ50/9A5eqnk2igeUpF3ebxhO/dOdc4qyzRHhQaAhWl2PMSb9++3Q1XJB 5ly9H+qLqctH6GOsAspxL9t90cgLWlV9CVIBSY2UXoqJwRmvYHue1zaJGa8ApusimQ17 uLT7h/pWRP0/7wMCyZ1jVSchwUa5GkPRjVXPc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:from:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id :subject:to:content-type; b=FDrfMzDNovywLxfDmbJ3BcEg44/ZSmFjEOfj/S41V5mxSyAsWKLwaScMwePAz7zqZo Wo2uQJRdmEBzn9YWHGDKed2QcX+BKSZqzXtOhvyfTugHsvGvMkZsm3Et2y5CwaI5Tm7g nc/2iJ1yKIubLajKyQEWQNAMgpAtNmKzg3lMg= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: jz.penguin@gmail.com Received: by 10.231.24.208 with SMTP id w16mr935721ibb.38.1256841407185; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:36:47 -0700 (PDT) From: James Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:36:27 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: ef917afad79e589a Message-ID: Subject: [gentoo-user] executing commands on lots of servers at once To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 2e32fc81-ae5c-4734-bced-0b78e02ea200 X-Archives-Hash: 458f88bda356a69a61730ee707fc8eb6 I have a cluster of Gentoo boxes I'd like to update all at once, along with emerging specific packages to the servers simultaneously. Does anyone have any experience(s) with a good utility for doing this? I've seen a few scripts online for accomplishing this but I'm not sure how these scripts would handle the large amount of output that emerge generates from all the servers simultaneously. Thoughts / ideas appreciated. -j