ghosts(1) - Linux man page

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.

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 $