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Xref: sserve comp.unix.questions:33210 comp.unix.programmer:8971 comp.unix.aix:21127 comp.unix.sysv386:27122 comp.unix.shell:8688 comp.unix.bsd:11820 Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.programmer,comp.unix.adm,comp.unix.aix,comp.unix.sysv386,comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!uunet!news.crd.ge.com!ariel!davidsen From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) Subject: Re: crontab having effect on several machines Message-ID: <C5JD15.12A@crdnns.crd.ge.com> Sender: usenet@crdnns.crd.ge.com (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: ariel.crd.ge.com Reply-To: davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) Organization: GE Corporate R&D Center, Schenectady NY References: <1993Apr13.205021.27788@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1993 17:39:05 GMT Lines: 20 In article <1993Apr13.205021.27788@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>, marc@gauss.math.mcgill.ca (Marc Sokolowski) writes: | Hi everybody, | | I would like to know if it is possible to set up a configuration for | several machines that can be affected by the contab file in one of them. | Does it rely on remote-logins and .rhost permissions on the target machines? | Is it possible to have a command be executed on a remote shell in a simple | format like 'host:command', and its result fed back to the user on the | machine the command was originally sent from? If you have the guts and NFS you could export the crontabs directory to all machines in the netgroup and mount it. It sounds good, but would affect all the machines and all the users, not just root. You could probably do some stuff with uux, which is a LOT easier to control, since you have by-machine and by-command control over it. -- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345