>This isn't a complete answer, but a possible approach: I'd use a named pipe >on the destination host. Here's a little experiment to demonstrate. > >[user at dhost temp]$ mkfifo pipe >[user at dhost temp]$ while true ; do ` < pipe` ; done > >Now, in another xterm: > >[user at dhost temp]$ echo date > pipe >[user at dhost temp]$ echo 'ls -l' > pipe > >You can 'echo' commands to the pipe in multiple windows; the while loop >will only read and execute one command at a time off the pipe. You can see >where this is going - now your multiple servers just ssh those echo >commands to the destination host and the corresponding commands are >executed. > >I'll leave it to you to make it suitably robust if you go this way; you'll >need to add some error handling, possibly signal handling, etc. but that's >just standard shell scripting. > >Best, > >--- Les Bell Thank you all very much! This is the exact approach I am trying out now as this is such a small scale quick need, once I roll out Torque or something for my earlier problem, I could apply it here as well. The command I execute is always the same shell script with a unique parameter passed into it, I'll look into tuning this up so it accepts the single word passed in via ssh, then executes the bash script with this as $1. Thanks everyone! jlc