On Sun, 30 Nov 2008, Jeremy wrote: > Check out Capistrano. It's used in the Ruby on Rails world to deploy > servers and updates, but it also works outside rails. > > You can define a set of servers and credentials, the just say > > run "some_linux_command --options" > or > sudo "some_linux_command --options" I like the idea. It is similar to what Adam and I were talking about: automating ssh jobs in a scripting language (in this case it is Ruby). I like that and I work with a good Ruby and RoR programmer. On the other hand, it it looks like it requires quite a bit of work to get things going: http://www.capify.org/getting-started/from-the-beginning I'm sure we'll be studying that one closely though. Mike