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pdsh

A high-performance, parallel remote shell utility

Pdsh is a high-performance, parallel remote shell utility. It has built-in, thread-safe clients for Berkeley and Kerberos V4 rsh, and can call SSH externally (though with reduced performance). Pdsh uses a "sliding window" parallel algorithm to conserve socket resources on the initiating node and to allow progress to continue while timeouts occur on some connections. Pdsh is similar to DSH, part of the IBM PSSP software offering, but offers improved performance and handling of error conditions. It runs on a variety of platforms (including as a replacement for DSH on AIX/PSSP), but is primarily developed on Linux.

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Use flags of 2.35

  • crypt Add support for encryption -- using mcrypt or gpg where applicable
  • readline Enable support for libreadline, a GNU line-editing library that almost everyone wants
  • rsh This allows the use of rsh (remote shell) and rcp (remote copy) for authoring websites. sftp is a much more secure protocol and is preferred.
  • test Enable dependencies and/or preparations necessary to run tests (usually controlled by FEATURES=test but can be toggled independently)

Runtime dependencies of 2.35

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