; semicolon starts a comment in INI files ; If your data value contains a ";" make sure there is no space before it ; There is a section for each [machinename]. In that section, you ; should define ; run=some command to run scripts ; It is a list of argv values to run the command. In each item of ; the list, you can use %(n)s to replace with various values: ; %(script)s - ; %(host)s - ; %(table)s - ; %(cmd)s - ; %(foo)s - if you include a foo= line ; [arzach] workdir=/arzach/data1/sienkiew [thor] workdir=/thor/data2/sienkiew [herbert] workdir=/herbert/data1/sienkiew [jwcalibdev] workdir=/data1/sienkiew/ur_work ; There is a section [ALL] that is used with every machine name [ALL] run=[ 'ssh', '-q', '%(host)s', 'cd %(workdir)s; %(script)s' ] [host_a] run=[ 'sleep', '3' ] [host_b] run=[ 'sleep', '3' ] [host_c] run=[ 'sleep', '3' ] [host_d] run=[ 'sleep', '3' ]