I'd like to so something that I bet savvy unix admins do all the time with screen, but I haven't figured out the trick.
I have a shell script that lets me do this: $ each <command> The script expands this running the same command on several machines: $ ssh host1 <command> $ ssh host2 <command> ... $ ssh hostN <command> The script basically works fine, but it executes the commands serially. For long running commands, I'd like to run them in parallel. Ideally I'd run them in a detached screen session on each machine. The ssh command should execute just long enough to start the long running command in a detached screen session. The -X option seems like it's intended for this purpose, but it seems to be a no-op. The man page says "Note that this command doesn't work if the session is password protected." To my knowledge the session is not password protected, but perhaps I am misunderstanding this. Is there some simple recipe for using ssh to execute a command in a detached screen on another host? Thanks, Jim Lloyd _______________________________________________ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users
