Bradley Taylor (of [Railsmachine](http://railsmachine.com/) hosting fame) said this on [the excellent Mongrel mailing list](http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users): “Just use these bash functions and put them in your .bashrc:” cluster\_restart () { mongrel\_rails cluster::restart -C /etc/ mongrel\_cluster/$1.yml; } cluster\_start () { mongrel\_rails cluster::start -C /etc/ mongrel\_cluster/$1.yml; } cluster\_stop () { mongrel\_rails cluster::stop -C /etc/mongrel\_cluster/$1.yml; } usage: $ cluster_start fluxura …