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Here is a quick and dirty ArcGIS geoprocessing server. I mostly did this so that I can call ArcGIS routines from scripts on my linux box across a cluster of ArcGIS servers.

It is not without caveats, mostly security caveats. I work in a firewalled environment and would not recommend exposing the entire arcgisscripting geoprocessing object in a non-firewalled environment, without adding some security. With the client code I am able to write scripts that work on either Win32 or Linux with the same code.

Additionally, you will need to refer to files and directories in your scripts as they would appear to the server instance (with its windows permissions). As ArcGIS scripting routines do not directly allow the passing of GIS data to them, you will have to point to them on the server’s filesystem, geodatabase or remote ArcSDE server as you would locally on the server.
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