Hi :-) I've been playing with distcc to do the same thing, getting it to run arbitrary things.
I first wrote a forking perl script to distribute jobs over the network with ssh(now fsh) but it's not very flexible, and I really wanted to see if I could get distcc to do what I wanted it to do ;) So as it turns out, getting distcc to resize/scale jpegs is actually very easy. First you write a Makefile: CC=/usr/local/bin/jpegcc .SUFFIXES: .jpeg .c OUTDIR=rot/ $(OUTDIR)%.jpeg: %.c $(CC) -o $@ -c $< rotated := $(patsubst %.c,$(OUTDIR)%.jpeg,$(wildcard *.c)) all: mkdir $(rotated) mkdir: [ -d $(OUTDIR) ] || mkdir $(OUTDIR) clean: rm -v $(OUTDIR)*.jpeg that was the easy part, the trick is writing jpegcc: #!/bin/sh while getopts c:o:E: c ;do case $c in c) INPUT="$OPTARG" ;; o) OUTPUT="$OPTARG" ;; E) INPUT="$OPTARG" cat $INPUT exit esac done #jpegtran -copy all -rotate 90 -outfile $OUTPUT $INPUT || true djpeg -scale 1/4 $INPUT |cjpeg -quality 90 -outfile $OUTPUT The only problem is having to name the source files .c or such, but adding .jpeg as a source file extension would fix that. But it works, surprisingly well. Although in your case, it would be best to write a daemon that works like the suggested distmp3, one that reads data and writes out zlib compressed data, and rewrite the compressloop program to use it. CC replies :-) -- -Justin __ distcc mailing list http://distcc.samba.org/ To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/distcc