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.TH PCONSOLE 1
.SH NAME
pconsole \- parallel console shell for administering clusters.
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B pconsole
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B pconsole
allows you to connect to each node of your cluster simultaneously,
and you can type your administrative commands in a specialized window that
\'multiplies\' the input to each of the connections you have opened.
.BR pconsole
is best run from within X Windows, although it is possible to
employ it without X (in console mode) as well.
.PP
You need to install
.BR pconsole
on only 1 machine in the cluster, this would
usually be your central administrative node.
.SH OPTIONS
.BR pconsole
need to be executed with superuser permissions, and enters in interactive mode
let you attach other devices so that all the commands sent to the console mode
of
.BR pconsole
are sent to the devices. This allows you to parallelize the execution of the
same command in various machines at a time.
.PP
.BR pconsole
has two working modes:
.TP
.B command mode
From this mode
.BR pconsole
can attach and dettach devices, list the attached devices at a time, connect
to sending mode where you can send commands to the attached devices, and quit.
To enter in command mode, use
.BR CTRL\-A
from sending mode.
.TP
.B sending mode
The mode where the commands sent to it are sent to the devices attached.
To enter this mode use
.BR CTRL\-D
or use the console command.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR /usr/share/doc/pconsole/README.gz
.BR xterm(1)
.SH AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Jesus Climent <jesus.climent@hispalinux.es>,
for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
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