run arbitrary shell commands

shellcmd is licensed under the GPL, see the file COPYING for more information.

shellcmd agent is a very simple agent for running arbitrary shell commands on your mcollective machines.

• Grab it from github:

  git clone git://github.com/slivarez/mcollective-shellcmd-agent.git
  

• Copy content of agent directory to the mcollective agent directory on all of your mcollective-managed machines.

• Install open4 gem (http://rubygems.org/gems/open4) on all mcollective-managed machines.

• On your client machine, copy the content of application directory to the mcollective application directory

• Test it:

  mco shellcmd 'echo i execute therefore i am'
  

• Joe Miller, <joeym@joeym.net>, 9/13/2010
• Joe McDonagh, <jmcdonagh@thesilentpenguin.com>, 2012-08-16
• slivarez, <slivarez@gmail.com>, 2013-10-29