Tentakel Releases
Releases that were made so far:
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Tentakel 2.2
(March 20, 2005)
Newest release!
Tentakel 2.2 comes with interesting new features:
- A plugin mechanism, allowing users to easily create their own remote methods.
- The maxparallel parameter allows one to restrict the number of concurrently running threads, to avoid too much load on download servers and such. This feature can make tentakel a lot faster under certain circumstances.
- Exit status of remote commands executed via rsh can now be determined.
- This release has been tested on the following systems: Debian sarge, RedHat 8, FreeBSD 5.3, Solaris 10/sparc64.
- Lots of bugfixes and code cleanup.
Yes, someone is still working on tentakel. So here is release
2.1.3 with a few nice changes. Most changes that happened
are not visible for the user, but there are still quite a few
that are of interest: Additionally to the ssh method, an rsh
remote method has been implemented.
The interpretation of the configuration file has changed in a
subtle but important way: Parameters for a specific host are
now taken from it's nearest enclosing group and not from the
top-level group. This means that if you have a group that uses
the "ssh" method and a group within this group that uses the
"rsh" method, the right methods are being used for the
contained hosts.
In fact up to now this didn't matter as the only method allowed
was ssh :)
Changes:
- new format string expression "%t". This shows the time in
seconds that was needed to do the remote execution for a host
- additional "rsh" method is now supported
- important: parameters for a specific hosts are now taken from
it's nearest enclosing group and not from the top-level group.
This makes nesting of groups much more useful
minor bugfix release, see ChangeLog
Changes:
- bugfix: allow '-' in hostnames
- bugfix: error message when no configuration file is found
- bugfix: remote status reports were accidently shifted by 8 bits
- minor spelling fixes