rset(1) operates by staging files on a remote system, then executing instructions embedded in the pln(5) files. Configuration may be written in any interpreter capable of running input from a pipe.
The bundled utilities renv(1), rinstall(1) and rsub(1) provide standard means of installing and modifying configuration files. Capabilities are added by writing utility scripts which are sent along with configuration data.
./configure
Compile-time options can be changed by editing config.h.
Build using
make
make install
or to install locally
PREFIX=$HOME/local make install
The test suite depends on ruby and bundler.
make test
Alternatively set a specific version of ruby
make test RUBY=/usr/local/bin/ruby32
List all labels matching a regex for host 'db1'
rset -n -x 'net|etc' db1
Execute all labels matching a regex for hosts 'db[1-3]'
rset -x 'net|etc' db1 db2 db3
Iterate over a list of hosts read from a file and execute labels that start with
default pattern [0-9a-z]
xargs rset < hosts
Show configuration files and labels that contain a reference a specific file
labelgrep httpd.conf *.pln
Notification of new releases are provided by an Atom feed, and release history is covered in the NEWS file.