On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 07:34 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
A very long time ago I did some generic job queueing stuff by hooking scripts into the unix lpr print spooler which had the advantage that they could be submitted from windows boxes through samba by going through the motions of printing them, but things have changed quite a bit since then and I don't know if that would still be easy. If the commands are always the same or the variable parts can be read as a list from a file, a shell loop is probably the easiest approach. You can also make a shell script read from a named pipe which will wait for something to be written, but you have to be careful about the size of the writes if there are concurrent writers to keep them from being interleaved.
--- I thought I was the only one that had that idea.... I guess not. Using the Spooler.
John