SUMMARY: Network Shell/global shell utility

I received a number of responses on this and I really appreciated them.

The responses came in two basic camps: 1. cfengine or other
configuration manager and 2. global shell utilites.

1. Cfengine and other configuration managers.
Of this variety I was recommended cfengine, tivoli and Network Shell.
Overwhelmingly, cfengine was the favorite response to my request.

2. Global shell utilities
Of these, _Mr._Shell_ (mrsh) and _Global_ were both recommended and a
couple of kind people offered me some homegrown wrappers they had
written around rsh/ssh. I had three people recommend _Global_ and one
person recommend _Mr._Shell_.

I believe that my ultimate solution will be to do a full install of
cfengine but this appears to require a bit of change in systems
management mindset. As such I am going to evaluate _Global_ and
_Mr._Shell_ and use one of them in the interrim,at this point they both
appear to be great utilities.

WEB LINKS:
MR SHELL
http://www.voltar.org/mrsh/
GLOBAL
http://www.vais.net/~efinch/global.html
CFENGINE
http://www.iu.hio.no/cfengine/

Everything else you'll have to look up at their corporate site.

Special thanks to:
Paul Keener
Rob McCauley
Ric Anderson
Mark Bergman
Adrian Stovall
Christopher David Pruden
Paul Mcintire
Jeff Kennedy
Walt Sullivan
Derrick Daugherty

-- PAUL


-- 
Paul J. Updike
Senior Systems Programmer
MEUS, Design Engineering Center - East
2635 Meridian Parkway
Durham North Carolina 27713
updike@msai.mea.com, (919) 767-7836