TOMAHAWK-RSYNC(1)

NAME
tomahawk-rsync - enables to copy files to many hosts

SYNOPSIS

tomahawk-rsync [options] source destination

DESCRIPTION

tomahawk-rsync is a program that enables to copy files <into/from> many hosts.

$ tomahawk-rsync -h host1,host2,host3 test.py /tmp/test.py

---> 'test.py' is copied to host1, host2 and host3.

$ tomahawk-rsync -f web.list /usr/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf /tmp/httpd.conf

---> 'httpd.conf' is copied to hosts which listed in 'web.list'.

$ tomahawk-rsync -h host1,host2 -m pull /usr/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf /tmp/conf/

---> 'httpd.conf' is copied from host1 and host2 to local directory /tmp/conf as 'host1__httpd.conf' and 'host2__httpd.conf'.

  rsync

tomahawk-rsync copies files via 'rsync'. You can specify options for rsync with -o/--rsync-ooptions.

OPTIONS

These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes ('--'). A summary of options is included below. For a complete description, see the Info files.

  -H, --hosts

Specifies host names for sending commands. You can specify multiple hosts with ','.

  -f, --hosts-files

Specifies hosts files which listed host names for sending commands. You can specify multiple hosts files with ','.

Format of hosts file is below.

web01
web02
#web03
web04

A line of starting with '#' disables a host.

  -l, --prompt-login-password

Prompts a password for ssh authentication of rsync at first. If the password is all the same between target hosts, you'll input a password just once.

  -c, --continue-on-error

Continues to send commands even if any errors. The default behavior is fail-safe, means that tomahawk will stop if any errors.

  -p, --parallel

Specifies a number of processes for parallel command execution. (default: 1) If your machine has many cpu cores, --parallel 2 .. N might be faster.

  -t, --timeout

Specifies timeout seconds for a command.

  -F, --output-format

Specifies command output format. The default is '${user}@${host} % ${command}n${output}n'

  -u, --rsync-user

Specifies rsync user. The default is a current logged in user.

  -o, --rsync-options

Specifies rsync options. The default is '-av'

  -m, --mirror-mode

Selection of 'push' or 'pull'. 'pull' means copy files from remote to local. The default is 'push'.

  -C, --conf

Specifies configuration file path. For additional information, see omit-command-line-options

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

tomahawk's behavior is affected by the following environment variables.

  TOMAHAWK_ENV

This variable specifies an environment of 'production', 'testing' or 'development'. If TOMAHAWK_ENV=production specified, tomahawk or tomahawk-rsync prompt as "command "%s" will be executed %s hosts. Are you sure? [yes/NO]: ". The environment variable exists for mis-execution of a command.

SEE ALSO

•   tomahawk(1)

•   ssh(1)

•   rsync(1)

AUTHOR
Kazuhiro Oinuma, Kohei Maeda

COPYRIGHT
2011-2014, Kazuhiro Oinuma