Re: Fifo Queue Job Scheduler

Him Joseph! I need something to read max 30 or so chars from a named pipe and execute my script with that keyword. Something that I can daemonize with an init script. Seen anything similar that can be bent into shape? Hmm, daemonizing perl scripts was discussed on PerlMonks, for example

RE: Fifo Queue Job Scheduler

>That depends on exactly what you are trying to do, how big of a job >queue it should be, if there needs to be any feedback (like job status >and error messages) and such. > >I for myself would go for a database backed system, as this implicitly >avoids things like race conditions and file lock

Re: Fifo Queue Job Scheduler

Joseph L. Casale wrote: I have been pointed to a ksh script called qjob that implements a fifo queue. As none of our servers use or have ksh, this presents a bit of a problem as it also leverages a ksh implementation of a counting semaphore which would take ages to rewrite. I figure this is a jo

Fifo Queue Job Scheduler

I have been pointed to a ksh script called qjob that implements a fifo queue. As none of our servers use or have ksh, this presents a bit of a problem as it also leverages a ksh implementation of a counting semaphore which would take ages to rewrite. I figure this is a job for Perl, but before I e