Need architecture help

[Amit Chitre]

My problem:
I want to compare files on 10 Solaris servers. None of them have ruby
installed on them. I have ruby installed on my PC though.

I was thinking on the lines of telnet'ing/ssh'ing into the servers, but
then how do I remotely run the file compare program in ruby on the
servers?

Any suggestion is appreciated.

Amit

 

[John Carter]

I want to compare files on 10 Solaris servers. None of them have ruby
installed on them. I have ruby installed on my PC though.

Use RExpect[1] to push ruby onto the servers, configure, compile, install.
(or compile on one and install on the others, whatever is easiest.)

I was thinking on the lines of telnet'ing/ssh'ing into the servers, but
then how do I remotely run the file compare program in ruby on the
servers?

See the "takeover" example.

I use it to "takeover" my colleagues machines to create a "distcc"[2] compile farm.

I do horrible things to them like install ssh keys and configure,
compile, install, and start distcc daemons on their boxen.

[1] http://rubyforge.org/projects/rexpect/
[2] http://distcc.samba.org/

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[William Morgan]

Excerpts from John Carter's mail of 8 Jul 2005 (EDT):

See the "takeover" example.

I use it to "takeover" my colleagues machines to create a "distcc"[2]
compile farm.

That's very neat. At work I was using Rinda to distribute Lucene queries
over 30-odd CPUs and I really could have used this to start things up.

Thanks!

 

[Ara.T.Howard]

Excerpts from John Carter's mail of 8 Jul 2005 (EDT):

See the "takeover" example.

I use it to "takeover" my colleagues machines to create a "distcc"[2]
compile farm.

That's very neat. At work I was using Rinda to distribute Lucene queries
over 30-odd CPUs and I really could have used this to start things up.

this can help for some senarios

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7922

cheers.

(ps. my mailer somehow messed up this thread so i've not seen all messages -
sorry if this is not totally relevant)

-a
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[William Morgan]

Excerpts from Ara.T.Howard's mail of 8 Jul 2005 (EDT):

this can help for some senarios

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7922

Yep, Ruby Queue is next on the list of "less ad-hoc solutions to try".

 

[Ara.T.Howard]

Excerpts from Ara.T.Howard's mail of 8 Jul 2005 (EDT):

Yep, Ruby Queue is next on the list of "less ad-hoc solutions to try".

cool. let me know when you are doing setup. the latest version has quite a
few improvements and i can suggest a few simple things that really help make
it easy.

cheers.

-a
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