Joseph L. Casale wrote: >> 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... If you don't mind introducing a single point of failure, pick a control host and ssh all the commands in a shell script that loops over the list of targets to run it. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com