>Are you looking for a real job scheduler? If so, it might be overkill, >but you might want to look into software like Sun Grid Engine, Torque, >or Condor (there are quite a few other schedulers out there). If those >aren't what you're hoping for, perhaps you could give more details about >what you're trying to accomplish. Based on John and Les's reco for a different cluster need, I am reading up on Torque etc now, but this just a trivial need I want to plug asap. It really is as simple as I wrote out earlier, multiple servers ssh a background job at nearly the same time consisting of an rsync command. The destination host for this target gets overwhelmed with more than one at a time... Thanks, jlc