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On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Andrew Milton wrote:

> +-------[ Julian Elischer ]----------------------
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> | This doesn't matter too much except that I now need to do
> | the same on 50 machines and I need the data to line up.
>
> [snip]
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> | firstly: does anyone know a better way to do this?
>
> look at clusterit..
>
> http://www.garbled.net/clusterit.html
>
> it has as one of it's features;
>
> Barrier sync for shell scripting.
>    This is a new idea. The barrier mechanism consists of a daemon run on a
> host, and a client which can be used to barrier sync with.
>
> Not sure if it's suitable for what you want.

"sorta"

but a bit heavyweight for what I'm looking for..
also doesn't give the simple accurate X second period I'm looking for
for simple shellscripts without adding the server daemon.


a good find though.. I may have some other uses for it :-)

julian

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