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1.1       root        1: Title:         dsh (distributed shell)
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                      3: Author:                Dave Presotto
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                      5: Address:       University of California
                      6:                Computer Science Division, EECS
                      7:                Berkeley, CA 94720.
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                      9: Net address:   presotto@berkeley (ARPA)
                     10:                ucbvax!presotto   (UUCP)
                     11: 
                     12: Description:
                     13: 
                     14: Dsh works in two phases; bidding and execution.  The bidding is performed by
                     15: starting a dbid program on all the requested machines (using rsh).  The
                     16: dbid's send back bids using the ipc.  The dsh command then picks some
                     17: subset of the bidding machines and runs the requested command on them,
                     18: once again using rsh.
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                     20: How to make it:
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                     22: To make the distributed shell system perform the following:
                     23:     1) make dsh - this is the program that the user uses to distribute
                     24:        his programs.  See the man page for dsh.
                     25:     2) make dbid - this program must be on every system which can have
                     26:        user programs distributed to it.  It must be in the search path
                     27:        of each user who wishs to use dsh. It is used by dsh to create
                     28:        a bid on a particular system.
                     29:     3) create a dshrc file - this is the default rc file for dsh.  It must
                     30:        reside in /usr/lib.  It specifies the systems to attempt to
                     31:        receive bids from.  Users may override this file by creating
                     32:        .dshrc files in their home directories.

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