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From: James <jtp@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] executing commands on lots of servers at once
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:43:08
Message-Id: e107b4ff0910291442l6fcf190ama3f6bbda4894e60f@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] executing commands on lots of servers at once by Alan McKinnon
1 Thanks for the response, Alan. I haven't posted on this alias in many
2 months, so it wasn't me who asked 2 days ago. ;) (nor do I see a
3 similar thread from two days ago, but it may have been sent to the bit
4 bucket, so I can't be certain)
5
6 Thanks!
7 -j
8
9 On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
10 > On Thursday 29 October 2009 20:36:27 James wrote:
11 >> I have a cluster of Gentoo boxes I'd like to update all at once, along
12 >> with emerging specific packages to the servers simultaneously.
13 >>
14 >> Does anyone have any experience(s) with a good utility for doing this?
15 >> I've seen a few scripts online for accomplishing this but I'm not sure
16 >> how these scripts would handle the large amount of output that emerge
17 >> generates from all the servers simultaneously.
18 >>
19 >> Thoughts / ideas appreciated.
20 >
21 >
22 > I thought we answered this for you two days ago?
23 >
24 > Put the same world and config on every machine, and build everything on one
25 > host called the binhost.
26 >
27 > emerge -k on every machine will pull binary packages from the binhost. This is
28 > identical to working with say Ubuntu, except that it's not a maintainer
29 > building packages and putting them on a remote repo, it's you doing it and
30 > putting the packages on a machine on your local network.
31 >
32 > clusterssh will let you log into many machines at once and run emerge -avuND
33 > world everywhere
34 >
35 > --
36 > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
37 >

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To James and James (was Re: [gentoo-user] executing commands on lots of servers at once) Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinrichs@××××××.de>