Comments on: Managing multiple Ubuntu servers painlessly

By: Prompting for a password with Applescript - Transcending Frontiers

Prompting for a password with Applescript - Transcending Frontiers — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 05:50:26 +0000

[...] to my previous foray into the world of Applescript, I’ve modified my server management script to now prompt me for a sudo password. Previously I [...]

By: JohnMc

JohnMc — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:05:14 +0000

Take a look at Fabric. It might provide the automation you are looking without use of terminal.

By: mlambie

mlambie — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 04:08:25 +0000

I’ve checked out Capistrano in the past (but need to investigate it further). For my situation, I want to be able to interact with each console, so I didn’t think it would work. For example, I need to be able to tell aptitude that I want to keep my existing configuration files for some applications on some servers.

Regardless, I’ll look into it further and thanks for the useful starting point. I had a hard time finding how to open a new tab for Terminal a year ago when I looked into it, and you solved it nicely :)

By: Martin Ström

Martin Ström — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 15:43:42 +0000

Have you tried Capistrano for sending commands to multiple servers at once? It was mostly built for Rails deployment but works great for any kind of setup. There are some articles out there on how to use it outside Rails. Glad you find my script usable as a start for your. Cheers