NAME

ghosts - provides a wrapper for the routines in SystemManagement::Ghosts

SYNOPSIS

ghosts [OPTIONS] SYSTEMS

 SYSTEMS is a combination of ghost macros.  See --help for more details.

 -h, --help            Display full help

DESCRIPTION

Parses the /etc/ghosts file for matching hosts. The first word of each line is the "hostname", and each other word on the line represents that host's membership in a given group. In the example below, there are two machines ("bilbo", "baggins") in the "prod" group, one ("tolkien") in the "e450" group, etc:

        # Macros
        sunprod=solaris^e450
        # Machines
        #
        # Name          Group           Hardware        OS
        bilbo           prod            intel           linux
        baggins         prod            e4500           solaris
        tolkien         devel           e450            solaris

Machine groups can be combined logically with the "+" and "^" characters to produce composite groups. For example:

        $ ghosts intel+e450
        bilbo tolkien
        $ ghosts prod^intel
        baggins

The gsh(1) command can be used to run remote SSH connections to hosts.

OPTIONS

-h, --help: Displays this full help.
-g, --ghosts CONFIG_FILE: Uses the provided ghosts configuration file, instead of /etc/ghosts. This means /etc/ghosts will not be read at all.

PREREQUISITES

"POSIX" "SystemManagement::Ghosts"

BUGS

I bet.

FILES

/etc/ghosts

AUTHOR

Kees Cook <kees@outflux.net>

<http://www.outflux.net/>

COPYRIGHT

Supposedly based on original code distributed with Perl Distribution.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

REVISION

Revision: $Revision $