csshX 0.74

2011-09-12 (Mon)

csshX 0.74

Filed under: MacOS X,Software — Gavin Brock @ 8:02 pm
Tags: csshx

Can’t believe it has been nearly a year without a release. This one is mostly bug fixes

–> Download:csshX 0.74 <–

Bug fixes:

The “extra_cluster_file” config option now works (great for sharing clusters on DropBox)
The –spaces option now ignored on 10.7 since mission control doesn’t have space id’s. You can still use bounds mode to drag to another space.
Slaves will move to the same space as the master on retile.
Workaround for 10.6 Scripting-Bridge boolean bug is no longer used in 10.7
Spaces hacks working reliably on 64bit
More spelling fixes

New Features:

Connect to one host “n” times with the “hostname+n” hostnames
Not really a user feature, but the source code is now under git.

Updates to wiki and macports will come soon..

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Comments (7)

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Gavin, csshX is great. I now smile when managing my little 10-node cluster.
Thanks for that!
-js

Comment by JS Theriault — 2011-09-13 (Tue) @ 12:44 am | Reply
Great stuff…I have a bunch of switches clustered into pairs with nearly-identical configurations on both. This makes it a breeze to keep things in sync and compare output from the whole cluster at once. Thanks!

Comment by Jason B. — 2011-09-16 (Fri) @ 6:55 am | Reply
Hi Gavin, I am hoping you can help. When launching csshX, it does open up a new terminal window but nothing much else happens. I get the following:

history -d $(($HISTCMD-1)) && clear && exec ‘/usr/local/bin/csshX’ ‘–master’ ‘–sock’ ‘/var/tmp/tmp.0.tc39XV’ ‘–launchpid’ ’23412′ ‘–screen’ ’0′ ‘–debug’ ’0′ ‘–tile_y’ ’0′ ‘–tile_x’ ’0′ ‘–login’ ‘root’
fc: event not found: -d

and in the parent window, the following shows up:

No master at /usr/local/bin/csshX line 1179.

Any quick tip / help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks again for such an amazing tool. I’ve seen it work elsewhere.

Comment by Jean Paul — 2011-09-28 (Wed) @ 11:25 pm | Reply
- Looks like it might be a shell related issue since it doesn’t seem to understand “history -d”. Could you open a ticket at http://code.google.com/p/csshx/issues/list with a few more details, such as the csshX version, the shell you are using and anything else that might be relavent.
  
  Comment by Gavin Brock — 2011-09-29 (Thu) @ 7:48 am | Reply
Hi. I’ve just started using csshX and I want to thank you for such a simple and wonderful script. I’ve just got one question.

In order to log in to several clusters I maintain, I must first ssh into a box where I can then ssh into each node within the cluster. How would I set this up within csshX? Is it possible?

Thanks again. Looking forward to showing people this application!

– Matt

Comment by Matt — 2011-11-28 (Mon) @ 6:21 am | Reply
- Glad it’s working out for you Matt.
  
  Tunneling through an ssh gateway is actually more of an ssh trick than a csshX one. The way I do it is with the following lines in my .ssh/config:
  
  Host far-away-server-?? ProxyCommand ssh gwuser@gateway-host exec nc %h %p
  
  (Note the ProxyCommand should really be indented – wordpress ate my whitespace :-( )
  
  This is assuming your gateway machine is “gateway-host” and the remote servers are called something like “far-away-server-01″, etc. The “Host” line is actually very flexible, it can handle multiple host names or patterns.
  
  This all assumes you have the “nc” command available – which most OS-X’s have.
  
  I’ll add this to the csshX FAQ some time.
  
  Comment by Gavin Brock — 2011-11-28 (Mon) @ 8:17 am | Reply
Hi Gavin,

Thanks for an awesome piece of software. I don’t know what I would do without it.

Comment by themorus — 2012-02-23 (Thu) @ 1:10 am | Reply