[sf-perl] parallelize system tasks, collecting statuses and output

[Randal L. Schwartz]

>>>>> "David" == David Alban <extasia at extasia.org> writes:

David> our sysadmins regularly need to restart a service on, say thirty
David> machines.  the service takes two and a half minutes to restart.  i'd
David> like to write a perl program they can use to parallelize the restart.
David> so that the whole operation takes three minutes rather than an hour or
David> more.  i want to collect the statuses and any output of the service
David> restart commands.

David> i found the Bidirectional Communication with Yourself section of the
David> perlipc man page.  i'm trying to hack their example so that only the
David> child writer writes to the parent reader.  my hacked version forks two
David> child processes, which i want to run in parallel.  each child process
David> ssh's to a host, sleeps a small amount of time, and then runs the
David> hostname command.  but the child procs seem to be running serially.

"Getting your kids to do the work"
   http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/LinuxMag/col15.html

Or, just look at Parallel::ForkManager in the CPAN.

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