2005-03-20 16:16  cran

	* py/lekatnet/remote.py: In .run(), wait a bit for _stopEvent.
	  Makes thread joining much faster.

	  taken from
	  http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/65448

2005-03-18 09:36  cran

	* TODO, py/lekatnet/plugins/__init__.py: ignore missing user plugin
	  dir

2005-03-18 09:22  cran

	* ChangeLog: generate ChangeLog from cvs, more information.

2005-03-18 09:17  cran

	* PLUGINS: oops. (%d -> %t)

2005-03-17 22:58  cran

	* tentakel.1, tentakel.1.html: mention PLUGINS document in the
	  manual page

2005-03-17 22:55  cran

	* Makefile, PLUGINS, py/setup.py: Plugin documentation

2005-03-17 22:55  cran

	* py/lekatnet/plugins/: rsh.py, ssh.py: fix imports

2005-03-17 21:51  cran

	* Makefile: include lekatnet/plugins/__init__.py in release tarball

2005-03-17 21:45  cran

	* ChangeLog, py/lekatnet/remote.py:
	   - update ChangeLog
	   - remove unit tests from remote.py. They do not work with
	  plugins
	     and bseides this they're shit.

2005-03-17 21:39  cran

	* py/: tentakel, lekatnet/remote.py: use config.__user_dir

2005-03-17 21:25  cran

	* tentakel.1, tentakel.1.html, py/lekatnet/config.py,
	  py/lekatnet/remote.py, py/lekatnet/plugins/__init__.py,
	  py/lekatnet/plugins/rsh.py, py/lekatnet/plugins/ssh.py: monster
	  commit, bring the plugin importer into an acceptable state.

	   - do not use execfile to source plugins, it's ugly. use "from
	  plugins import *" instead
	   - put all importer logic in plugins/__init__.py
	   - mention plugins in the manual page
	   - much better docstring for remote.py, explain concepts

2005-03-17 02:57  cran

	* py/lekatnet/plugins/__init__.py: forgot to check this in

2005-03-17 02:56  cran

	* py/lekatnet/remote.py:
	  make plugin imports a bit nicer

	   - make the plugin registry a private attribute
	   - error when a plugin class does not inherit from RemoteCommand
	   - user plugins get loaded last, so one can override standard
	  methods

2005-03-17 01:12  cran

	* py/: setup.py, lekatnet/remote.py, lekatnet/plugins/rsh.py,
	  lekatnet/plugins/ssh.py:
	  First shot at plugin loading

	   - move *RemoteCommand classes into plugin dir
	   - make setup.py aware of this directory/package
	   - kind of ugly importer using execfile
	   - finds user plugins in $HOME/.tentakel/plugins/

2005-03-15 09:11  cran

	* tentakel.1, tentakel.1.html, py/tentakel, py/lekatnet/config.py,
	  py/lekatnet/error.py, py/lekatnet/remote.py,
	  py/lekatnet/shell.py: update copyright for 2005

2005-03-14 17:11  cran

	* py/lekatnet/remote.py:
	  - add some comments on RemoteCommand.slot to point out the
	  problems

	  - _maxparallel -> __maxparallel

	  - only create the slot semaphore when needed and then only once
	  (this was   a minor bug in the first version)

2005-03-14 15:33  cran

	* py/lekatnet/remote.py:
	  Rework displayAll().

	  Now the RemoteCommand class has an auxiliary queue holding
	  references to objects that have results pending. This way
	  displayAll() can simply wait (blocking) for the next result by
	  calling the auxiliary queues get() method.

	  Makes displayAll() easier to understand and also a bit faster.
	  (speed is getting more and more an issue with tentakel...)

	  As a side effect this also fixes a silly bug that allowed only
	  one command to be executed during an interactive tentakel
	  session.

2005-03-13 19:57  cran

	* TODO: update

2005-03-13 19:50  cran

	* TODO: update

2005-03-13 19:46  cran

	* tentakel.1, tentakel.1.html: make clear that maxparallel is set
	  to 0 by default

2005-03-13 19:43  cran

	* ChangeLog, tentakel.1, tentakel.1.html, tentakel.conf.example,
	  py/lekatnet/config.py, py/lekatnet/remote.py: Add "maxparallel"
	  parameter.

	  This was surprisingly easy to implement by simply adding (and
	  using) a BoundedSemaphore to the RemoteCommand class as a class
	  attribute.

2005-03-05 23:11  cran

	* tentakel.1, tentakel.1.html: Add some pieces of plugin
	  documentation

2005-03-05 23:04  cran

	* Makefile: include plugin directory in release

2005-03-05 22:54  cran

	* py/lekatnet/shell.py: Ignore readline import errors.

	  This fixes compatibility with e. g. Solaris.

2005-03-05 22:23  cran

	* ChangeLog, INSTALL, Makefile, py/setup.py, py/tentakel: Set
	  version to 2.2

	  Put a notice in INSTALL to make people use packages in favor of a
	  source install.

	  Update ChangeLog (optimistically...)

2005-03-05 22:12  cran

	* py/lekatnet/remote.py: Do not make RemoteCommands daemonic
	  because one of the last changes made it necessary. Unfortunately
	  I don't know why. Since tentakel seems to do fine without
	  setDaemon(1) I don't care at the moment.

2004-12-29 14:07  cran

	* py/lekatnet/plugins/: rsh.py, ssh.py:
	   First shot at plugin infrastructure

2004-12-29 14:04  cran

	* py/lekatnet/remote.py:
	  cumulative check-in, cause I made many changes and forgot to
	  check in afterwards...

	   - better separation for the *RemoteCommand classes, commandQueue
	     is now semi-private. Leads to easier client interface

	   - fix bug that lead to many stale threads when changing the
	  configuration
	     interactively

	   - RSHRemoteCommand can now determine the rsh return status

	   - attempt to make thread handling better: output results
	  immediately when
	     they're ready (in the resultQueue). For that reason
	  displayAll() sort
	     of polls the resultQueue

	  This commit might break things at first.

2004-11-21 12:32  cran

	* TODO: more

2004-10-06 23:28  cran

	* INSTALL: add a note about problems that may occur when an
	  optional python-dev package is missing from the system. Noted by
	  Marlon 10 months ago. :)

2004-09-27 02:41  cran

	* py/lekatnet/remote.py: more elegant way to choose needed
	  RemoteCommand derivate

2004-09-26 22:04  cran

	* INSTALL: change installation instructions regarding the python
	  version that has to be 2.3 at least.

2004-09-26 22:01  cran

	* ChangeLog: set release date for 2.1.3

2004-09-26 21:58  cran

	* ChangeLog, README, TODO, tentakel.1, tentakel.1.html,
	  py/tentakel, py/lekatnet/config.py, py/lekatnet/remote.py:
	  Second part of the RemoteCommand overhaul

	   - RemoteCommand is now a generic class, all remote command
	     classes inherit from there

	   - SSHRemoteCommand and RSHRemoteCommand are the first ones

	   - introduce "rsh" method and "rsh_path" variable

	   - update TODO

	   - update manpage

	   - update and reformat README

	   - remove warning message about which config file is used that
	     was there only for debugging reasons

	   - IMPORTANT CHANGE: parameters for a specific hosts are now
	  taken
	     from it's nearest enclosing group and not from the top-level
	  group.
	     A simple change makes this possible: the
	  ConfigBase.getGroupMembers()
	     method now returns a list of tuples where each tuple contains
	  a
	     destination and a complete set of group config parameters

2004-09-26 15:28  cran

	* Makefile, py/setup.py, py/tentakel: crank version number

2004-09-26 15:25  cran

	* py/lekatnet/: config.py, remote.py:
	  First step of the RemoteCommand overhaul:

	  The goal is to have a generic RemoteCommand class and one class
	  for each remote methode that inherits from RemoteCommand.

	   - Unify RemoteCommand __init__ parameters. This way the
	     container object does not need to know about the remote
	     method and its specific parameters. Instead the container
	     has to supply the group specific parameters as a dictionary.

	   - For this it is needed to be able to ask the ConfigBase class
	     for a complete set of configuration directives for a specific
	     group. You can do this with the getGroupParams() method now.

	   - rename: ConfigBase.getExpandedGroup() ->
	  ConfigBase.getGroupMembers()

	   - rename: ConfigBase.getGroup() -> ConfigBase._getGroup()

	   - update docstrings

	   - update unit tests

2004-09-26 13:55  cran

	* tentakel.1, tentakel.1.html: typo

2004-09-26 13:52  cran

	* ChangeLog, tentakel.1, tentakel.1.html, py/lekatnet/config.py,
	  py/lekatnet/remote.py:
	  Introduce %t expansion:

	   - add to format parser token list
	   - RemoteCommand objects must now provide a duration
	   - update documentation accordingly (fix typo in manpage as well:
	  ommited -> omitted)
	   - update ChangeLog
	   - change default format to illustrate usage of %t

2004-09-26 13:41  cran

	* TODO: update

2004-09-26 12:24  cran

	* py/: tentakel, lekatnet/config.py, lekatnet/remote.py: update,
	  fix and add a lot of documentation

2004-09-26 11:54  cran

	* py/lekatnet/config.py:
	  Forgot to remove TODO for previous commit

2004-09-26 11:51  cran

	* py/: tentakel, lekatnet/config.py:
	  - make config.dump() and config.load() take a file object
	  parameter   and not a string containing the path.  - use
	  TemporaryFile or NamedTemporaryFile instead of mktemp.

	  This limits backwards compatibility to python 2.3.

2004-09-25 15:23  cran

	* py/setup.py:
	  - update homepage URL

2004-09-25 15:21  cran

	* py/: tentakel, lekatnet/config.py, lekatnet/error.py,
	  lekatnet/remote.py, lekatnet/shell.py:
	  - update copyright notices (years) - change python default path
	  to /usr/bin/python

2004-09-25 15:19  cran

	* py/lekatnet/remote.py: typo: failure -> failures

	  In case of a failure, this lead to a failure :)

2004-01-25 19:06  cran

	* py/: tentakel, lekatnet/config.py, lekatnet/remote.py,
	  lekatnet/shell.py: don't use "from ... import *", instead,
	  explicitely name the module name.

	  This is much easier to read and debug.

2004-01-25 15:31  cran

	* py/lekatnet/: config.py, remote.py: - use new-style classes where
	  possible - better format map handling:   - better variable names
	  - put %% in the default format map of the formatter class   -
	  make formatMap a property in the formatter class - use zip()
	  instead of map(lambda...) to zero the default values in
	  ConfigGroup

2004-01-25 15:21  cran

	* py/lekatnet/remote.py: fix for braindead regression test (still
	  braindead enough)

2004-01-18 14:47  cran

	* TODO, py/lekatnet/config.py: quite hard to do: reacting to
	  programs that require terminal input

2004-01-17 19:58  cran

	* ChangeLog: update

2004-01-17 19:54  cran

	* Makefile, py/setup.py, py/tentakel: set version to 2.1.2

2004-01-17 19:50  cran

	* py/lekatnet/: config.py, remote.py: use english quoting style in
	  warning and error messages

2004-01-17 19:35  cran

	* py/tentakel:
	    - (err nameclash in config.py fixed before)
	    - first try config file that was specified on the command line
	      and err out if it does not work
	    - than try user config and site config and err out if they
	  don't work
	    - finally tell user that no config has been found

2004-01-17 19:13  cran

	* py/lekatnet/remote.py: shift status 8 bits left to remove signal
	  number

2004-01-17 19:12  cran

	* py/lekatnet/config.py: allow "-" in hostnames

2004-01-11 14:15  cran

	* ChangeLog, py/lekatnet/config.py:  - fix some regression tests
	   - add one to test ugly syntax parsing

2004-01-11 00:34  cran

	* py/lekatnet/config.py:
	    - put empty lines between groups in config dump
	    - put clarifying comment into temporary config edit file

2004-01-10 23:44  cran

	* Makefile, py/lekatnet/remote.py:
	    simple unit tests for RemoteCommand

2004-01-10 23:28  cran

	* Makefile, py/lekatnet/config.py:
	    introduce some unit tests (which were commited partially
	  before)

	    regression testing is triggered with "make regress" in the main
	  directory

2004-01-10 22:48  cran

	* py/lekatnet/: config.py, remote.py:
	    - remove bug from parser that zeroed out all global settings
	    - sanitize getParam()
	    - rework __doc__ for getParam()
	    - remove superfluous variable in remote.py

2004-01-10 21:26  cran

	* ChangeLog, Makefile, py/setup.py, py/tentakel: set version to
	  2.1.1

2004-01-10 21:17  cran

	* py/lekatnet/: config.py, remote.py:
	   - put default values in the PARAMS dictionary because it is more
	     obvious
	   - make comments a non-terminal in the config file grammar.
	  Rather
	     use tpg.Parser.extract() to cut them out. This should fix the
	     problem where one could not use # in a parameter value

2004-01-06 13:12  cran

	* py/lekatnet/remote.py: remove -x from ssh command

2004-01-06 13:10  cran

	* py/lekatnet/config.py: initialise keyword token from PARAMS

	  this is some kind of hack since it involves setting the docstring
	  with __doc__ = r"""......""" % ...

2004-01-05 22:27  cran

	* tentakel.1, tentakel.1.html: typo

2004-01-05 16:23  cran

	* py/lekatnet/config.py: fix getParam() to match expected behaviour

2004-01-05 15:51  cran

	* ChangeLog: set release date

2004-01-05 15:45  cran

	* tentakel.conf.example: change config file example after recent
	  changes

2004-01-05 15:39  cran

	* py/lekatnet/config.py:
	   - put all config parameters into a global variable PARAMS
	   - __str__ global parameters only if their value is non-empty

2004-01-05 00:36  cran

	* Makefile, py/setup.py, py/tentakel: set version to 2.1

2004-01-05 00:34  cran

	* tentakel.1, tentakel.1.html: mention how parameters of sub-groups
	  are treated

2004-01-05 00:33  cran

	* ChangeLog: update

2004-01-05 00:33  cran

	* py/lekatnet/config.py:
	   determine user globally, not in each group

2004-01-04 15:40  cran

	* tentakel.1, tentakel.1.html:
	   change manual page after to reflect recent grammar changes

2004-01-04 15:40  cran

	* py/lekatnet/: config.py, remote.py:
	   - restructure/simplify grammar
	   - now all values (after =) have to be quoted with ""
	   - all parameters may appear in a set statement, which makes them
	  global
	   - all parameters may appear in a group spec, which makes them
	  local to this group

2004-01-04 13:59  cran

	* py/lekatnet/: config.py, remote.py:
	   - introduce "set varname=value" directives in the configuration
	  file
	   - currently supported is ssh_path="/some/path/to/ssh"
	   - new category in the config AST: "settings"
	   - use self["settings"]["ssh_path"] from the config AST to set
	  the ssh path
	   - minor optimisations in the config file grammar (not ready yet)

2004-01-04 13:08  cran

	* ChangeLog, README, tentakel.1, tentakel.1.html: update homepage
	  address (now: http://tentakel.biskalar.de/)

2004-01-04 01:02  cran

	* Makefile, tentakel.1.html, py/setup.py: add html version of
	  manpage

2004-01-02 19:08  cran

	* TODO: more

2004-01-02 19:03  cran

	* tentakel.conf.example: make clear that host definitions do not
	  need to be separated by newlines

2004-01-02 18:08  cran

	* ANNOUNCE-2.0: announcement text for rel 2.0

2004-01-01 19:58  cran

	* ChangeLog: 2.0 release

2004-01-01 19:45  cran

	* tentakel.conf.example, TODO: more

2004-01-01 19:35  cran

	* Makefile:
	   - remove redundant information

2004-01-01 19:34  cran

	* INSTALL:
	   - more install hints
	   - minor fixes

2003-12-29 15:40  cran

	* tentakel.1: nicer postscript output

2003-12-28 22:40  cran

	* py/lekatnet/: remote.py, shell.py:
	   - don't use __str__ when a normal method makes more sense...

2003-12-28 22:26  cran

	* py/lekatnet/error.py:
	   - tentakel warnings and errors go to sys.stderr
	   - indicate errors as such

2003-12-28 22:22  cran

	* py/lekatnet/config.py: catch RuntimeError from possible loops in
	  configuration files

2003-12-28 21:40  cran

	* README:
	   modernize README

2003-12-28 21:24  cran

	* tentakel.1:
	   - better formatting in a lot of places
	   - document interactive mode
	   - change suse7.3 example to myGroup

2003-12-28 17:06  cran

	* TODO: update

2003-12-28 16:39  cran

	* TODO: update

2003-12-28 16:22  cran

	* tentakel.1:
	   - make the manpage more exact
	   - complete config file description
	   - fix some issues with postscript output

2003-12-28 13:22  cran

	* Makefile, py/setup.py, py/tentakel: set version to 2.0

2003-12-28 13:04  cran

	* TODO: done

2003-12-28 13:04  cran

	* tentakel.1, tentakel.conf.example, py/tentakel,
	  py/lekatnet/config.py, py/lekatnet/remote.py,
	  py/lekatnet/shell.py:
	   - formats are now defined in the config file as groupspec
	  parameters
	   - formats are stored in the abstract syntax tree for each group
	   - format is set in RemoteCollator.useConf()
	   - update manpage and example config file accordingly

2003-12-27 15:33  cran

	* TODO: some more TODOs

2003-12-27 15:28  cran

	* Makefile, README: add TPG to the distribution

2003-12-27 15:25  cran

	* py/: tentakel, lekatnet/config.py, lekatnet/error.py,
	  lekatnet/remote.py, lekatnet/shell.py: add licenses

2003-12-27 15:13  cran

	* py/lekatnet/: config.py, error.py, remote.py:
	  Just give a warning on some errors instead of killing tentakel

2003-12-27 14:55  cran

	* README, tentakel.1: dont use the term "site shell"

2003-12-27 14:53  cran

	* tentakel.1, tentakel.conf.example: move config file documentation
	  into manpage

2003-12-27 14:38  cran

	* ChangeLog: update

2003-12-27 14:33  cran

	* tentakel.1, py/tentakel:
	   - if existant use $HOME/.tentakel/tentakel.conf instead of
	  /etc/tentakel.conf
	   - document this behaviour

2003-12-27 14:12  cran

	* tentakel.1, py/tentakel, py/lekatnet/remote.py:
	   - use TPG to parse formatstrings
	   - use \n and \t for newline and tab
	   - change manpage accordingly

2003-12-27 13:54  cran

	* tentakel.1: fix example

2003-12-27 04:48  cran

	* README, tentakel.1, py/tentakel: rename -d parameter to -g

2003-12-27 04:38  cran

	* tentakel.1, py/tentakel: let the user decide which config file to
	  use with the new -c parameter

2003-12-27 04:21  cran

	* py/setup.py, py/tentakel, Makefile: crank beta version number

2003-12-27 04:20  cran

	* TODO, tentakel.conf.example, py/lekatnet/config.py:
	   - better syntax for the configuration file, see the grammar diff
	  and example

2003-12-27 00:59  cran

	* py/: tentakel, lekatnet/config.py, lekatnet/remote.py,
	  lekatnet/tpg.py:
	   - import tpg into package lekatnet (maybe remove it later)
	   - use tpg to generate a parser for the configuration file
	   - simplify the abstract syntax tree in config.py much

2003-12-18 16:21  cran

	* INSTALL: more hints about installing tentakel

2003-12-18 09:49  cran

	* tentakel.1: document -v

2003-12-17 23:38  cran

	* py/lekatnet/config.py:
	   - use tempfile module to get a temporary pathname for
	  ConfigBase.edit()
	     This is not really safe but acceptable for the time being.
	   - get EDITOR or VISUAL from environment, fallback to vi

2003-12-17 23:11  cran

	* py/: tentakel, lekatnet/error.py:
	   - move helptext for -h where it belongs, tentakel, not error.py
	   - tentakel -v now outputs version information

2003-12-17 23:02  cran

	* TODO, py/tentakel, py/lekatnet/config.py, py/lekatnet/remote.py:
	   - if a the user value in tentakel.conf is set to "$user" then
	  the
	     effective uid of the tentakel process is used.

2003-12-14 18:47  cran

	* INSTALL, Makefile:
	    - respect PREFIX environment variable during installation

2003-12-14 18:14  cran

	* INSTALL, Makefile, py/config.py, py/error.py, py/remote.py,
	  py/setup.py, py/shell.py, py/tentakel, py/tentakel.py,
	  py/lekatnet/__init__.py, py/lekatnet/config.py,
	  py/lekatnet/error.py, py/lekatnet/remote.py,
	  py/lekatnet/shell.py:
	   - move modules into own package "letaknet"
	   - use distutils for installation
	   - adopt changes to INSTALL and Makefile

2003-12-13 16:10  cran

	* tentakel.1, py/tentakel.py:
	   - don't err when no groupname is specified on the command line,
	     just use "default".

2003-12-13 16:09  cran

	* Makefile:
	   - include temporary python files in clean target

2003-12-13 15:59  cran

	* ChangeLog, README, TODO, hostlist.example, tentakel, tentakel.1,
	  tentakel.conf.example, tentakel.old:
	   - Bring ChangeLog and documentation in sync with recent changes
	   - rename old shell version to tentakel.old

2003-12-13 11:02  cran

	* py/shell.py: This is not true

2003-12-13 10:55  cran

	* py/: shell.py, tentakel.py:  - put shell into own module
	   - no globals are referenced anymore from the class body

2003-12-13 00:18  cran

	* py/tentakel.py:
	   - "listgroups" in interactive mode lists available groups
	   - "use" in interactive mode sets current group and also changes
	  the prompt

2003-12-12 22:58  cran

	* py/: config.py, error.py, remote.py, tentakel.py:
	   - sprinkle some TODOs
	   - style: always newlines after docstrings

2003-12-12 22:44  cran

	* py/: config.py, error.py, remote.py, tentakel.py: A *lot* of
	  changes. too much to list all of them.

	   - restructured a lot of objects
	   - use cmd.Cmd for interactive mode
	   - rename some variables
	   - more useful docstrings
	   - use __str__ for the ConfigItem-style objects. Not it's very
	  easy
	     to dump a config object back to a human readable file

	  Still lotsa bugs.

2003-12-08 15:37  cran

	* py/: config.py, error.py, remote.py, tentakel.py:
	  First shot at a python version of tentakel.  Not quite ready yet,
	  but usable.

2003-05-28 00:23  imaginat

	* tentakel: Provided a solution to the problem with the assert
	  function. "set +e" is not supported by many shell, so Sebastians
	  solution wasnt perfect. The ksh and the Unix V7 sh exits for the
	  code "set -e; eval false || true", but it doesnt, when it's
	  wrapped in ``. So I got rid of the set +e and used something
	  similar to "if `eval false`" instead.

2003-05-23 04:28  cran

	* TODO: reflect recent changes and clarify a bit

2003-05-23 04:22  cran

	* tentakel, tentakel.1: Introduce -C option which can be used to
	  restrict command execution to a specific number of hosts.

2003-05-23 04:13  cran

	* tentakel: make assert() actually work (never worked before)

2003-05-22 12:42  cran

	* tentakel.conf.example: o No default parameters, <method> and
	  <user> for each host object now mandatory o Lists of lists o
	  Clarify that nesting of lists is possible without limits o Update
	  comments and syntax description accordingly

2003-05-20 14:41  cran

	* tentakel.conf.example: Proposal for a general tentakel.conf file
	  format.

	  This is just an example .conf file, there is still no code that
	  interprets it.

2003-05-19 19:27  cran

	* ChangeLog, Makefile, tentakel: bugfix release 0.3.1

2003-05-19 15:44  imaginat

	* tentakel: First draft on fixing that stupid dot error.

2003-04-19 18:16  cran

	* Makefile: o Rename INSTALLMAN->MANDIR and INSTALLBIN->BINDIR to
	  avoid confusion.  o Tell user that configure is not implemented
	  yet.

2003-04-19 17:25  cran

	* INSTALL, Makefile, install.sh, mkrelease.sh: First version of a
	  Makefile. install.sh and mkrelease.sh are obsolete now.

	  Update INSTALL to reflect changes in the installation process.

2003-04-18 13:12  imaginat

	* INSTALL: Update list of necessary tools.

2003-04-18 13:07  imaginat

	* tentakel: Remove -f flag for rm command. (When something goes
	  wrong, it should at least be reported, not silently ignored)
	  Change the assertion for dprint back: It has to be invoked with
	  exactly one argument.

2003-04-17 13:30  cran

	* tentakel: use "rm -f" in *_destroy()

2003-04-17 13:28  cran

	* tentakel.1: document -d switch

2003-04-17 13:27  cran

	* tentakel: Match manpage SYNOPSIS in usage() output

2003-04-17 13:25  cran

	* TODO: remove stuff that is implemented

2003-04-17 13:23  cran

	* ChangeLog: release 0.3

2003-04-17 13:18  cran

	* INSTALL, README, tentakel.1: Documentation overhaul

	  o remote return value in separator string o mention hardcoded
	  /usr/bin/ssh in BUGS

2003-04-17 13:13  cran

	* tentakel: o Temporarily fix possible loop in dprint()/assert() o
	  Use "$*" in dprint argument instead of "$@"

2003-04-17 08:52  cran

	* tentakel: set MYVER to 0.3

2003-04-17 08:50  cran

	* INSTALL, README: Don't put my email address in those files

2003-04-17 08:49  cran

	* ChangeLog: restructure ChangeLog and reflect latest changes

2003-04-17 08:45  cran

	* tentakel, tentakel.1: Back out -s option. Setting (format)strings
	  on the commandline is unneeded complexity and we don't really
	  support it yet.

	  This feature may return once we have a working format string
	  expansion facility.

2003-04-17 01:25  imaginat

	* tentakel.1: Take the ENVIRONMENT section out. The only entry
	  there was about DEXECHOST, but that's not in use now, and similar
	  functionality will be implemented in a more abstract way.

2003-04-17 01:17  imaginat

	* tentakel: Move the check for given commands from the execute
	  function to the setup function.

2003-04-17 00:45  imaginat

	* tentakel: Change the exit code setting to allow usage of set -e
	  again.

2003-04-16 18:03  imaginat

	* tentakel: Reporting of the local exit code works now.
	  Unfortunately, for this to work, "set -e" has to be commented
	  out.

2003-04-16 16:14  imaginat

	* tentakel: Moved the wait command to the container call method.

2003-04-16 15:48  imaginat

	* tentakel: Corrected and inserted assertions. Corrected code that
	  sets the local exit code.

2003-04-16 14:44  imaginat

	* tentakel, tentakel.1: Rename temporary files to prefix tentakel.
	  Separate remote stdout and stderr.

2003-04-16 13:55  cran

	* tentakel: simplify usage() output

2003-04-16 13:54  cran

	* tentakel, tentakel.1: Introduce -s parameter that can be used to
	  specify a custom separator string.

2003-04-16 10:51  cran

	* tentakel: Forgot a closing quote.

2003-04-16 10:48  cran

	* tentakel.1: We're beta now.

2003-04-16 10:47  cran

	* README, tentakel: Remove lies about the need to quote the remote
	  command in a whole.  This was just a bug that has vanished in the
	  meanwhile.

2003-04-16 10:43  cran

	* README, tentakel, tentakel.1: o Rename flag -c to -l since -c
	  will be used for the global config file.  o Reflect this change
	  in the documentation as well.  o Rename FLAG_CONFIG to
	  FLAG_HOSTLIST for the same reason.

2003-04-16 10:30  cran

	* tentakel: rename parse_config() to parse_hostlist() because we
	  need this name for the function that will parse the global
	  configfile

2003-04-16 10:10  cran

	* tentakel: rename functions to match their meaning better:

	  o callit() becomes distribute_command() o execute() becomes
	  execute_command()

2003-04-16 01:48  imaginat

	* tentakel: Add a class that takes over the repetitive calling of
	  methods of the host objects. Restructure the callit function to
	  make use of this class.  Change make_host to use only one
	  parameter by throwing the currently unused dexechost out. Change
	  the class definition syntax slightly by omitting the semanticly
	  misguiding {} in make_host.

2003-04-16 01:28  imaginat

	* tentakel.1: Due to the OO rewrite the DEXECHOST feature is not
	  implemented at the moment. Note this in the ENVIRONMENT section.

2003-04-14 23:58  imaginat

	* tentakel: The bourne shell doesnt support the unary negation
	  operator !, that negates the return code of pipelines. Remove the
	  only appearance.

2003-04-14 21:20  imaginat

	* tentakel: Introduce a first try on object oriented programming to
	  tentakel.  Rewrite the whole callit function to make use of the
	  new object model for hosts.

2003-04-14 15:48  cran

	* TODO: more

2003-04-14 15:45  cran

	* tentakel.1: Don't keep the users from being smart themselves.

2003-04-12 02:33  imaginat

	* tentakel: Remove RSHFLAGS (those configuration will be taken over
	  by configuration files) and DOWNHOSTS (which is obsolete).

2003-04-12 01:46  imaginat

	* TODO: Some additional notes. Remove the entry about writing a
	  manpage.

2003-04-12 00:27  imaginat

	* README: Take the information about the now obsolete alive check
	  out.

2003-04-12 00:26  imaginat

	* tentakel.1: Update according to the changes in the code (take the
	  aliveness check out).

2003-04-12 00:21  imaginat

	* tentakel: Take the test for aliveness of remote hosts out.  As a
	  result of that, the now useless flags -o and -a have also been
	  removed. -q is the same as -a.

2003-04-11 00:31  cran

	* INSTALL, README, tentakel, tentakel.1: No more nmap. Instead, use
	  ping to determine aliveness of hosts.  Since some implementations
	  of ping don't support setting an explicit timeout value we're
	  bound to the default.

	  Comment two asserts that bugged me while I'm here.

2003-04-11 00:27  imaginat

	* tentakel.1: Use correct quotation marks (mainly useful for
	  postscript output).

2003-04-10 20:18  imaginat

	* tentakel: Introduce the function assert. Use it in some
	  functions.

2003-04-10 18:54  imaginat

	* tentakel: Revision of the callit function, remove some non-bourne
	  dependencies.

2003-04-10 10:46  cran

	* ChangeLog: more

2003-04-10 10:42  cran

	* tentakel.1: further explanations for the DEXECHOST variable

2003-04-10 10:27  cran

	* tentakel.1: proper license and RCS id

2003-04-10 10:06  cran

	* tentakel.1: document DEXECHOST variable in new section
	  ENVIRONMENT

2003-04-09 22:03  imaginat

	* tentakel: Minor corrections / hacks: Ignorance of nmap's stderr,
	  fix a missing "then", include the main program.

2003-04-09 21:50  imaginat

	* tentakel: Introduce the setup function to evaluate the results of
	  the command line parsing. Move the dprint function generation to
	  the setup function.  Introduce the function alive_echo. Moved the
	  setting of the CFGFILE-variable from parse_config to setup.

2003-04-09 21:16  imaginat

	* tentakel: Change parse_options to be just a parser, don't execute
	  any code there.  Removed FLAG_QUIET to conform to documentation
	  to prohibit possible side effects. Removed command line option -h
	  and added --version for displaying version information.

2003-04-09 20:58  imaginat

	* tentakel: Simplify the execute function

2003-04-09 20:41  imaginat

	* tentakel: Split the huge code block at the end of the file into
	  separate functions.  Rename Version and Usage to version and
	  usage, resp.

2003-04-09 20:34  imaginat

	* tentakel: Stripped some comments.

2003-04-09 20:25  imaginat

	* tentakel: Introduce a function to output the current version
	  number and remove this from the Usage function

2003-04-09 20:22  imaginat

	* tentakel: Substitution of tabulator characters in the output of
	  the Usage function

2003-04-09 16:56  imaginat

	* tentakel: Added quotes in the dprint function.

2003-04-09 00:17  imaginat

	* tentakel: Replacement of "[" by "test" for better compatibility.
	  Cleaner semanticss for the tests like -eq instead = for numbers.

2003-04-09 00:05  imaginat

	* tentakel.1: Added the "Reporting Bugs" section and my name to the
	  author's list.

2003-04-08 23:53  imaginat

	* tentakel: Improved bourne compatibility. Dropped some uses of
	  "$(())"- and "${}"-expansion that are not present in all bourne
	  shells.

2003-04-08 15:54  cran

	* tentakel: remove unnecessary comment

2003-04-08 15:45  imaginat

	* tentakel: Changed the indentation to use 8 character wide columns
	  globally.

2003-04-08 15:22  imaginat

	* tentakel: Removed the unnecessary encapsulation of the nmap|grep
	  pipe in the alive function.

2003-04-08 15:19  imaginat

	* tentakel: Changed the semantics of the tempfile function. Error
	  is now reported through the exit code from the mktemp process
	  itself. The caller doesn't have to check if the created file name
	  is "/dev/null" anymore.

2003-04-08 15:16  imaginat

	* tentakel: Changed the function err to exit by itself after
	  showing the error.  Adapted this behaviour to every places where
	  the err function was used. Introduced the "warn" function to
	  output warnings without exiting.

2003-04-08 15:01  imaginat

	* tentakel: Got rid of the "checksoft" function. It's still too
	  early for such a functionality.

2003-04-03 01:15  cran

	* ChangeLog: more

2003-04-03 01:14  cran

	* TODO: some new, some done, some changed

2003-04-01 12:25  cran

	* tentakel: initialize FLAG_* with numbers, not strings.

2003-04-01 12:07  cran

	* README: forgot one ~ -> $HOME

2003-04-01 12:06  cran

	* INSTALL, tentakel, tentakel.1:  o use `` instead of $()
	   o use $HOME instead of ~
	  I hope this commit makes tentakel bourne shell compatible again.

2003-03-30 18:51  cran

	* tentakel.1: missing ,

2003-03-30 18:42  cran

	* tentakel, tentakel.1: Remove -s option because it makes
	  absolutely no sense.	Return values should be handled in a better
	  way.

2003-03-30 18:36  cran

	* tentakel: sync -h output with manpage

2003-03-30 17:36  cran

	* ChangeLog, INSTALL, install.sh, mkrelease.sh: installation helper

2003-03-30 17:10  cran

	* tentakel: User numbers, not strings, to express flags.  Change [
	  parameters accordingly. (= -> -eq, != -> -ne)

2003-03-30 15:27  cran

	* INSTALL, README, TODO, tentakel, tentakel.1: tentacle -> tentakel
	  name change

2003-03-30 15:23  cran

	* mkrelease.sh: put manpage into tarball

2003-03-29 22:49  cran

	* ChangeLog: o manpage o rcs id

2003-03-29 22:39  cran

	* TODO: host list sorting functions

2003-03-29 22:20  cran

	* README, tentakel, tentakel.1: No logfile anymore. Instead, use
	  dprint for debugging output.	Debug output is enabled using the
	  -d switch.

2003-03-26 18:39  cran

	* TODO: o manpage mostly done o new todo: stdin/stdout handling

2003-03-26 18:36  cran

	* tentakel.1: some clarifications

2003-03-26 18:29  cran

	* ChangeLog: unnecessary

2003-03-26 15:08  imaginat

	* tentakel.1: Written the initial manpage.

2003-03-26 15:05  cran

	* README: typo in example

2003-03-26 15:04  cran

	* README: Some usage examples

2003-03-26 14:56  cran

	* TODO: more

2003-03-26 14:46  cran

	* tentakel: add error handling function and use it where
	  appropriate

2003-03-26 14:39  cran

	* mkrelease.sh: document a bit

2003-03-26 14:11  imaginat

	* INSTALL: Corrected one of the spelling errors.

2003-03-26 13:23  cran

	* ChangeLog: append yesterdays and todays changes

2003-03-26 13:23  cran

	* TODO: more

2003-03-26 13:19  cran

	* INSTALL, hostlist.example, mkrelease.sh, tentakel: o clarify
	  install process o provide hostlist example o raise version number
	  to 0.3-beta

2003-03-26 13:09  cran

	* ChangeLog, mkrelease.sh: add (empty) ChangeLog

2003-03-26 13:04  cran

	* INSTALL, README: MUCH more information

2003-03-26 13:04  cran

	* TODO: manpage

2003-03-26 12:51  cran

	* mkrelease.sh: put TODO in release tarballs as well

2003-03-25 13:09  cran

	* INSTALL, README: sprinkle some rcs ids

2003-03-25 13:08  cran

	* TODO: some todos

2003-03-25 12:56  cran

	* tentakel: german -> english

2003-03-25 11:25  cran

	* mkrelease.sh: make release script

2003-03-25 10:36  cran

	* INSTALL, README, tentakel: Initial import

2003-03-25 10:36  cran

	* INSTALL, README, tentakel: Initial revision