mass

mass.pl is the implementation of a relatively simple idea. Instead of interactively doing some task on one machine, then duplicating the effort on N other machines, write a shell script, then scp it to N machines and execute it as root.

Example

(sic@foo)($:~/mass)- ./mass.pl --name solaris --script pushsomething --su --sshpass
sudo password:
ssh password:

trying to run pushsomething on 1 machines
test

test

PING test.example.com (10.1.1.10) from 10.1.2.3 : 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 10.1.1.10: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.142 ms

--- test.example.com ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% loss, time 0ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.142/0.142/0.142/0.000 ms
pushsomething 100% |*****************************| 183 00:00
test.txt 100% |*****************************| 15 00:00
sic@tests password: sh-2.05a$ PS1=$ ; PATH=/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/s;export PS1;export PATH
$ sudo -K ; sudo sh
Password:
$ PATH=/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/sbin ; export PATH
$ if [ `id|cut -d -f 1` = uid=0(root) ]; then PS1=# ; fi
# sh pushsomething && echo script done || echo script failed
script done
# /bin/rm pushsomething test.txt && echo removed pushsomething test.txt
removed pushsomething test.txt
#

1 passed: test
0 failed:
0 fatal errors: