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