dsh.conf(5)

🎀 dsh.conf(5) — NAME 🎀

okay bestie, welcome to dsh.conf — it's the configuration file for distributed shell, aka dancer's shell. yep, the fifth section, we're in file-format territory, very demure, very config-coded. ✨

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

/etc/dsh/dsh.conf is where all the default values live that dsh uses when you invoke it. like, the vibes you set here are the vibes dsh walks in with. periodt.

every entry in dsh.conf shows up looking like this, no cap:

option=value

and when a thing needs a boolean value, value is either "1" or "0":

• 0 = NO 🙅‍♀️
• 1 = YES 💅

🌈 FORMAT 🌈

• remoteshell=rsh — this one says "use rsh as the remote shell". iconic, classic, slightly feral. 🦋
• remoteshellopt=rsh-opt — feeds rsh-opt in as an extra option handed to the remote shell you invoked. little bonus flag, as a treat. ✨
• forklimit=fork limit — sets how many parallel connections get created at the same time. basically the group-chat size limit for your connections, fr fr. 🔥
• waitshell=1 — set it to 1 and the shell waits for each individual invocation. like, one at a time, patient queen energy. 👑 go peek at the -c and -w options in dsh(1) for the full tea.
• showmachinenames=1 — turn this on and machine names get printed in front of each output, so you always know who said what. 💬 see the -M option in dsh(1).
• verbose=1 — gives you verbose output. it's giving ✨narration✨. it's giving 💬tell me everything💬.

🫶 FILES 🫶

• /etc/dsh/dsh.conf — configuration for dsh. that's the one. that's the file. 🎀

🌸 AUTHOR 🌸

dsh was written by Junichi Uekawa <dancer@debian.org>. legend behavior, honestly. 💜

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• dsh(1) — go read it, bestie, this whole file is basically its backstory. 🙈

and that's the whole page!! no notes, ate, left no crumbs. 🍓

this was Debian-Beowulf/Dancer, 2003 May 29 — yeah it's vintage, but vintage is literally just iconic with a timestamp. mwah. 💋🧚