Re: NIS and /etc/profile

From: Tim Haynes (usenet@stirfried.vegetable.org.uk)
Date: 06/29/02 

From: Tim Haynes <usenet@stirfried.vegetable.org.uk>
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 16:12:53 +0100

"Tony" <tony.wong@sbcglobal.net> writes upside-down like a silly wombat:

> to every single machine?

Yes. What's so hard, and why not consider implementing a proper
/usr/local/share/etc/ tree for the purpose?

Or why not do it all in batch mode? Assuming you have ssh key access to
either the root account, or a user with sudo, on each box, something like
the following would do the trick:

    for i in `cat host_list.txt`
    do
      echo Fixing box $i
      ssh root@$i "echo somecommands >> /etc/profile"
    done

ssh -t is invaluable for sudo over ssh.

~Tim 

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