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Shellconf.py – Simple remote configuration with shell for UNIX/Linux systems

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Hi all,

I have created my second Python script, and would appreciate comments, contributions or just someone to discuss it with, as i am sure it can be optimized in many ways, as it is a part of my learning. The script is for configuring UNIX/Linux machines with shell scripts with Python - So pretty much a Python way of Fucking shell scripts.

I added it to Github so you can view it there: https://github.com/adionditsak/shellconf.py :-)

Sincerely, Anders

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Hi all,

I added it to Github so you can view it there: https://github.com/adionditsak/shellconf.py :-)

Sincerely, Anders

Along this line, you might find "cogs" (a toolkit for developing command-line utilities in Python) useful to build upon, it's an internal tool we use at Prometheus that's MIT licensed: https://bitbucket.org/prometheus/cogs

Good stuff. Take a look at Fabric for another (and very commonly-used) example of Python wrapping SSH: http://docs.fabfile.org. Also you might look to Paramiko for a native SSH implementation: https://github.com/paramiko/paramiko.

Hi Nburger,

Thanks.

Yeah, Fabric is awesome. Really like it. Have not looked that much at Paramiko tho.

The explanation:

   "Run local shell scripts chronologically on defined remote servers asynchronously."

reads like Yoda-speak to me. :)

Hehe the shell scripts are executed one by one chronologically, but the request to the servers are asynchronously. Does not work so good yet tho... need to fix it :-)

EDIT: With that said... could be awesome we contributions.

While Python is likely more widely installed than Ruby, I still don't understand, why use Python to run a bunch of shell scripts? Why not use the shell to run the scripts?

    for f in scripts/*;do
      #logrotate here
      scripts/"$f" &> "logs/$f.log"
    done

or something like that?

EDIT: not trying to be rude, I just don't understand.

Makes sense. Was thinking the same... Just doing this for learning actually. I think it makes sense tho to do it in Python, Ruby or something else, if you want to steamline it in some way with structure/architecture. I would like to see the bash version tho :-)

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