On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 15:38 -0400, Karl MacMillan wrote: > Speaking of that, I was wondering what you guys think is the most > interesting thing about func. So far I've seen basically 3 interesting > bits (there is likely more that I am missing): > > 1) Managing multiple systems at once w/ the possibility of globbing (and > grouping later I guess). > > 2) Simplified scripting of commands for running on many systems. > > 3) An xml-rpc infrastructure with simplified auth to make it all work. a simple ssl cert infrastructure for getting them signed and propagated among systems, by default. This infrastructure is potentially usable by: - yum - puppet - nagios - cacti > > To me, 1 and 2 are the most compelling aspects and 3 seems to overlap > quite a bit with ssh. except ssh involves shells, which is not what we want to start programming from. -sv
