mass mass is a program that lets a system administrator execute programs on some set of machines as root.
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mass is a program that lets a system administrator execute programs on some set of machines as root. mass.pl is the implementation of a relatively simple idea. Instead of interactively doing some task on one machine, then duplicating the effort on N other machines, write a shell script, then scp it to N machines and execute it as root.Example(sic@foo)($:~/mass)- ./mass.pl --name 'solaris' --script pushsomething --su --sshpasssudo password: ssh password: trying to run pushsomething on 1 machinestesttestPING test.example.com (10.1.1.10) from 10.1.2.3 : 56(84) bytes of data.64 bytes from 10.1.1.10: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.142 ms--- test.example.com ping statistics ---1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% loss, time 0msrtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.142/0.142/0.142/0.000 mspushsomething 100% |*****************************| 183 00:00 test.txt 100% |*****************************| 15 00:00 sic@test's password: sh-2.05a$ PS1='$ '; PATH=/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/s;export PS1;export PATH$ sudo -K ; sudo shPassword:$ PATH=/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/sbin ; export PATH$ if ; then PS1='# '; fi# sh pushsomething && echo script done || echo script failedscript done# /bin/rm pushsomething test.txt && echo removed pushsomething test.txtremoved pushsomething test.txt# 1 passed: test0 failed: 0 fatal errors: Requirements:· Expect-1.15· IO-Stty-.02· IO-Tty-1.02· TermReadKey-2.21· Text-Balanced-1.95· Parse-RecDescent-1.94Here are some key features of "mass":new: arbitrary expressions to compose hosts out of named sets (union, simple difference, symmetric difference, and intersection)send files to the remote hosts (RPMs or other packages for example)retrieve files from them (the contents of /etc for example).can become root via the following methods:·ssh login as root·su·sudo·it also supports not becoming root when it's not necessary uses ssh 1 or ssh 2 or any other ssh optionsnamed lists of machines which can be comprised of arbitrarily complex perl expressionsfew dependencies on the remote machines, should work on most unix like OSes.Free

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