> Dan Track wrote: >> I appreciate this is OT but could someone just give me a little >> advice, I've written this script to logon on each server then >> restart the ntpd daemon. The problem I have is it only restarts the >> daemon for the last server provided in the list, any ideas as to why >> and how to fix it? > > While I'm not offering any help on why your expect script is failing > you, I would say that if you have a need to ssh into multiple machines > to copy config files and restart services, you should look into tools > like func and puppet. Func is perfect for quick, one-off commands. > Puppet is better for complete configuration management. > > As a t-shirt from Reductive Labs¹, the makers of Puppet said, "SSH in a > loop is _not_ a solution." ;) > > ¹ http://reductivelabs.com/images/Layouts.pdf Alternately, Dan ought to, instead of an expect script, use a non-root user, key-based authentication (bypass the password), scp the conf file to the non-root user's homedir, and sudo to provide root level privs to move the conf file into place and restart NTP. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org To be notified of updates to the web site, visit: https://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update or send a blank email message to: site-update-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
