Remote Update

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Remote_Update

http://www.viraj.org/
Automates remote administration tasks

remote_update.pl is a script that uses Expect, PERL, and SSH to perform automated remote administration on a large number of hosts. The script is given a set of passwords, a list of remote hosts, a collection of files to copy over, and a set of scripts to run on the remote hosts. The only thing required to be running on the remote machines is SSH. It tries to copy all of the needed files and scripts to the remote machine via SCP as a non-root user, SSH in as the non-root user, su to root on the remote machine if applicable, and then execute the scripts you provided. This process is cycled for every host given. su'ing to root can be turned off, and also the tasks can be parallelized in multiple processes.





Licensing

License

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Notes

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Janet Casey

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22 August 2001




Leaders and contributors

Contact(s)Role
Viraj Alankar Maintainer


Resources and communication

AudienceResource typeURI
Bug Tracking,Developer,SupportE-mailmailto:valankar@bigfoot.com


Software prerequisites

KindDescription
Required to useexpect/Tcl/tk libraries
Required to useOpen SSH (local and remote hosts)
Required to useexpect




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