From: John Carter <john.carter@...>
Date: 2005-07-08T13:38:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Need architecture help

On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Amit Chitre wrote:

> 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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