queued

Information

Daemon for starting jobs to queue of calculations. To start deamon just run systemctl start queued as root.

help message

queued [ -jd | --jobdir /var/lib/queued/job ] [ --priority 0 ] [ -q | --queuefile /var/lib/queued/queue ] [ -u | --user root ] [ -wd | --workdir /var/lib/queued/work ] [-v | --version ] [ -h | --help ]

Parametrs:
  -jd  --jobdir    PATH     - path to job directory. Default is '/var/lib/queued/job'
       --priority  NUM      - defalut priority. Default is '0'
  -q   --queuefile PATH     - path to queue file. Default is '/var/lib/queued/queue'
  -u   --user      USERNAME - start jobs by user. Default is 'root'
  -wd  --workdir   PATH     - path to work directory. Default is '/var/lib/queued/work'
  -v   --version            - show version and exit
  -h   --help               - show this help and exit

Configuration

All settings are stored in /etc/queued.conf. After edit them you must restart daemon (systemctl restart queued).

How-to run jobs

• create shell script with the command (it have a name script.sh for example)
• create priority file (script.sh.pr) with the job priority if it is needed
• create user file (script.sh.user) with the job username if it is needed
• copy files to $WORKDIR

Instruction

Dependencies

• bash (sed, awk, etc)
• systemd

Installation

• download sources

• copy source to /:

    sudo cp ../queued/* /