note mhearse You could do that. The way I've done is via puppet and cfengine. Also via func and ansible. <i>Ducks for mentioning python apps on a perl pub</i> These methods require some work to get setup. SSL or SSH if you're the paranoid type (want to sleep soundly through the night). <p> <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_an_RPM_package">Create your rpm</a> and then deploy it: <code> for i in $(cat serverlist) do ssh "$i" "sudo yum -y install your.rpm" done </code> 1014235 1014316