On Wed, 2006-12-07 at 20:11 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > I do it with dozens and it doesn't take enough time that hundreds > would be a problem - but the remote ones are running Centos > where I've never had an update kill the machine. I'm not so > sure I'd 'ssh yum -y update' a remote fedora box without > testing an exact duplicate first. There's a F/OSS app that uses SSH to execute the same command on multiple machines, saving the admin the pain of doing the same thing on each machine manually. I forgot what it's called, but that app would be a great way to "automate" many monotonous tasks. Regards, Ranbir -- Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu Linux 2.6.17-1.2141_FC4 i686 GNU/Linux 10:33:00 up 1 day, 11:13, 2 users, load average: 1.10, 0.64, 0.43