man dsh.conf (Formats) - configuration file for distributed shell, or dancer's shell

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dsh.conf - configuration file for distributed shell, or dancer's shell

/etc/dsh/dsh.conf contains default values used in the dsh program invocation.

An entry in dsh.conf comes in the following format:

option=value

where value is "1" or "0" when it requires boolean value. 0 means NO, and 1 means YES.

Specify rsh as remote shell

remoteshellopt=rsh-opt: Specify rsh-opt as an extra option for the invoked remote shell.
forklimit=fork limit: Specify the number of parallel connection to create at the same time.
waitshell=1: Specify 1 to to make the shell wait for each individual invocation. See -c and -w option for dsh(1)
showmachinenames=1

Show machine names in front of each output. See -M option for dsh(1)

dsh was written by Junichi Uekawa <dancer@debian.org>