mass.pl
mass is a program that lets a system administrator execute programs on some set of machines as root. It uses SSH, scp, sudo or su, pings hosts before attempting to scp to them, retries failed hosts, works well with ssh-agent (but also handles SSH password or passphrases) and in general makes life easier whenever there's a need to do some operation on many machines. It works on most Unix-like OSes.
| Tags | Systems Administration Utilities |
|---|---|
| Licenses | Artistic |
| Operating Systems | POSIX BSD FreeBSD Linux Solaris Unix |
| Implementation | Perl |
Recent releases
- 20 May 2004 18:17
Changes: Arbitrary set operations (union, difference, symmetric difference, intersection) were added to the --name argument for more flexible host list creation.
- 26 Apr 2004 20:00
Changes: A noclean option that prevents sent files from being removed was added. An obscure sudo "missed root prompt" where it would successfully become root but miss the pattern was fixed.
- 05 Feb 2004 18:02
No changes have been submitted for this release.
