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The things in brackets are group names, which are used in classifying systems
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The things in brackets are group names, which are used in classifying systems
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and deciding what systems you are controlling at what times and for what purpose.
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and deciding what systems you are controlling at what times and for what purpose.
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It is ok to put systems in more than one group, for instance a server could be both a webserver and a dbserver.
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If you do, note that variables will come from all of the groups they are a member of, and variable precedence is detailed in a later chapter.
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If you have hosts that run on non-standard SSH ports you can put the port number
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If you have hosts that run on non-standard SSH ports you can put the port number
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after the hostname with a colon. Ports listed in your SSH config file won't be used,
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after the hostname with a colon. Ports listed in your SSH config file won't be used,
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so it is important that you set them if things are not running on the default port::
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so it is important that you set them if things are not running on the default port::
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