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> I was looking at puppet and cfengine but learning and implementing those
> seem like an overkill for my purpose.
>
> Are there any other elegant solutions which can help me achieve my goal?

rdist.  It used to be in the base system, but was moved to ports for 
specious security paranoia reasons. Set the appropriate environment 
variable to have it use ssh(1) instead of rsh(1) and you're good to go.

--lyndon