Clusterpirate

Why Sometimes running commands across a range of servers is necessary. Yes, there is Ansible, Puppet and SaltStack etc., however in some cases this is overkill (and these usually require python, ruby or other languages installed. The following shell script runs commands (via sudo if required) on a group of hosts in parallel. It is quite old and not very elegant but does the trick and hopefully helps somebody in the future. Please don't comment on syntax and bugs. Configuration The .run file in your home directory contains one line for user: and one line for pass: . Should this file not exist, the script will ask for the user and password interactively. The servers file includes one line per host (or includes for additional host files) - or if the file does not exist it will be treated as single host name. Usage ./run.sh server "uptime" Script #!/bin/bash # # About: Script to concurrently run commands on a list of servers (with or without sudo) # Author: Lonestarr # Las...