Boris Duerner <Marc.Duerner@student.shu.ac.uk> immo vero scripsit: update-cluster tool, which was developed as needs arose in debian-beowulf, might be of interest. It handles configuration files which contain list of machines. regards, junichi -- dancer@debian.org : Junichi Uekawa http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer GPG Fingerprint : 17D6 120E 4455 1832 9423 7447 3059 BF92 CD37 56F4 Libpkg-guide: http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/libpkg-guide/