crussh: a modern cssh replacement

Backstory

For anyone who needs to administrate clusters of many machines, clusterssh has long been a fallback for when the rest of your automation tools aren't working.

However, cssh has a number of deficiencies in modern environments:

• Doesn't play nice with window placement of modern window managers.
• Doesn't play nice with modern toolkits' copy and paste behaviour.
• Gets a bit screwy when there's more terminals than can fit on-screen.
• Doesn't support nice antialiased fonts.

crussh aims to be a simple replacement for cssh that corrects these problems. It does so with the following features:

• Uses a single window to hold multiple terminals.
• Intelligently tiles terminals to fit available window size.
• Scrolls available terminals when they don't all fit in-window.
• Uses GTK and the VTE widget to provide modern, anti-aliased terminals.

Install

The install process is very simple on most distros:

• Install python2, python-gtk2, and python-vte.
• Run ./crussh.py hostname [hostname ...]

Copyright and License

crussh is copyright 2012 by Graeme Humphries graeme@sudo.ca.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see the GNU licenses page.