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Re: SSH and apt-get problem



On Sun, 2002-03-03 at 19:44, Faheem Mitha wrote:
> 
> On 3 Mar 2002, Matthew H. Ray wrote:
> 
> > I have a small cluster of Woody machines (fresh install) and I've
run
> > into problems running apt-get with SSH.  While trying to install
> > packages on all the machines with dsh, I started getting apt-get
> > problems, so I tried it with just ssh on the individual machines. 
It
> > appears that SSH is losing it's knowledge of the PATH while
executing.
> > I used ssh-keygen so I wouldn't have to do logins (thus no password
> > request).
 
> I use RSA authentication with a blank passphrase, so I don't have to
> give a password, just do "ssh hostname". This works fine for me. Why
> don't you use that instead?
[snip]

"ssh hostname" will work, but I'm trying to maintain a cluster of
machines and having to log on to each machine takes a lot longer. 
According to the man pages for SSH, "ssh hostname command" is supposed
to work but "apt-get install" is failing.

Thanks,
Matthew H. Ray

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