arcan1s / queued

Daemon for starting jobs to queue of calculations

queued

Information

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

License

GPLv3

help message

• queued:

    queued [ -c /etc/queued.conf ] [ -v | --version ] [ -h | --help ]
  
    Parametrs:
        -c               PATH     - path to configuration file. Default is `/etc/queued.conf`
        -v   --version            - show version and exit
        -h   --help               - show this help and exit
  

• add_queued:

    add_queued [ -c /etc/queued.conf ] [ -p NUM ] [ -u USER ] [ -h | --help ] /path/to/script
  
    Parameters:
        -c               PATH     - path to configuration file. Default is '/etc/queued.conf'
        -p               NUM      - job priority
        -u               USER     - username
        -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

Also you may use add_queued.

See also

man 1 queued
man 1 add_queued
man 5 queued.conf

Instruction

Dependencies

• bash (sed, awk, etc)
• systemd

Installation

• download sources

• run install.sh from source directory:

    cd queued
    sudo ./install.sh "/path/to/root"