JW wrote, On 08/06/2008 05:47 PM: JW, fwiw, here's a framework (no error checking, buggy) based upon the scripts i sent out earlier for a scripted "Mega Konsole" that i think does what you want. There are security implications of the "--script" option to 'konsole' (i don't know what they all are and the extent of access control to the session). Also, this doesn't do cool things like clusterssh where you can actually do non-blocked editing of files, etc, but from your description of using "Send Input to all Sessions", i don't think you need that. (i *think* your issue about having to send-all a password to 'su'/'sudo' should work if you do it right and don't use the while-loop list of commands to exec.) --stephen sdowdy@spudnut:~/bin$ cat konssh3 #!/bin/sh # Title: mega-konssh # Description: create a scriptable konsole with many session tabs # Author: Stephen Dowdy (sdowdy@xxxxxxxx) # Caveats: work-in-progress host_list="root@host1 root@host2 root@host3 joe@host4 mary@host5" # Create the MainWindow.... konsole \ --script \ --caption "Bungload of Sessions" \ --T "Bungload of Sessions" \ --nomenubar \ --vt_sz 132x42 \ --noclose \ & KID="konsole-$!" for session in ${host_list}; do sid=$(dcop ${KID} konsole newSession) dcop ${KID} ${sid} renameSession "${session}" dcop ${KID} ${sid} sendSession "ssh $session" done # close the now useless first session dcop ${KID} session-1 closeSession dcop ${KID} konsole sendAllSessions "echo 'Hello World'" # Run our list of commands across all session tabs while read command; do dcop ${KID} konsole sendAllSessions ${command} <<"EOF" cp /etc/passwd /etc/passwd.safe sed -i -e 'g/^bob:/d' /etc/passwd echo "that wasn't very smart" EOF echo "You can now do things like:" echo 'dcop ${KID} konsole sendAllSessions "shutdown -h now"' exit 0 -- Stephen Dowdy - Systems Administrator - NCAR/RAL 303.497.2869 - sdowdy@xxxxxxxx - http://www.ral.ucar.edu/~sdowdy/ ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.