Comments on: Compiling and Using ClusterSSH on Mac OS X

By: Gavin Brock

Gavin Brock — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 08:30:12 +0000

I recently created csshX which might be an interesting alternative to cssh for OS-X: http://code.google.com/p/csshx/

.. Gavin

By: stephdau

stephdau — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 18:52:00 +0000

No reasons besides the fact I never heard of it before. :)I’ll check it out, because I’m curious by nature, but I’m actually not using ClusterSSH on my OSX boxes anymore, because the GPL’ed iTerm allows me to do this natively, through tabs and multi-tab input.http://iterm.sourceforge.net/Still use ClusterSSH on Linux though.

By: Thomas Aylott

Thomas Aylott — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 18:22:00 +0000

Why not just use capistrano?http://rubyforge.org/projects/capistrano/“A utility for executing commands in parallel on multiple machines, such as deploying applications to a cluster of boxes.”

By: Amit

Amit — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 20:22:00 +0000

As for the comment regarding KDE port to Mac OS X. It has already been done…technically speaking.Since Qt is running native on Mac OS X, it is not very difficult to get KDE running. In fact check out these links:1) http://dot.kde.org/1158239585/2) http://ranger.users.finkproject.org/kde/index.php/Home3) Screenshots here:http://www.racoonfink.com/archives/000700.html

By: stephdau

stephdau — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 15:06:00 +0000

Yeah, I do wonder if Apple will move to x.org in Leopard.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 07:17:00 +0000

Bah, that OS X… Konsole (in KDE) does this by default. :-) I heard there was someone working on an Aqua port of KDE to MacOS X (I think Apple is the last OS maker to still be shipping XFree86, and a shitty one at that).

By: stephdau

stephdau — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 15:20:00 +0000

I did not know dsh, but I just downloaded it, as well as libdshconfig, and both compiled flawlessly on OS X right off the bat.While there are definite advantages in not having X11 windows opening for each connection, especially if you are interacting with a 256 nodes cluster, in my context (3) the interactivity is a desirable feature. This is because I sometimes rely on remote software that require interaction, or need to focus on one of the connections, and run commands on the one nodes only, then switch right back to distributed commands. ClusterSSH allows me to do so in one session.But dsh is a very nice tool, with some neat features (concurrent v. procedural commands, etc), and already earned a place in my toolbox.Thanks for the link! :)PS: I did not dismiss the other cssh as obsolete. Not updated does not mean dead, but I do have to favour projects that seem livelier. :)

By: Johnny Mnemonic

Johnny Mnemonic — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 06:34:00 +0000

Sorry, meant to include a link:http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/software/dsh.html.en

By: Johnny Mnemonic

Johnny Mnemonic — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 06:32:00 +0000

While you mention cssh, and it being obsolete, I don’t see the advantages of this versus dsh. It appears that there would be some advantage to not having to open multiple X11 windows, in fact, if you have dozens of nodes to control.Care to comment how dsh compares to this strategy?