Re: Need recommendation for task scheduler

2006-05-09 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Yonah Russ, from the post of Thu, 27 Apr: I think everything suggested so far is way to complicated. Have all your servers mount a directory(lets call it cronserver) and store all your scheduled scripts there. ok, talk about complicated. NFS is the LAST answer I want to give... here's

Re: Need recommendation for task scheduler

2006-04-27 Thread marc
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: We used for some years, in cs.tau, openpbs. It mostly worked, but for some reasons we were not happy with it. A few years ago we moved to condor. I did not work with it much, so I don't have an opinion. It's rather big

Re: Need recommendation for task scheduler

2006-04-26 Thread Omer Zak
I'd use an homebrew system, which employs a powerful scripting language. First, design a data structure, which can describe all those operations which you want to perform. For each task, have task ID, the command to be executed, command to test success/failure, command to execute in case of

Re: Need recommendation for task scheduler

2006-04-26 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 09:28:56AM +0300, Chen Shapira wrote: Hi Linuxers, For large production system, I'm looking for a scheduler with the following capabilities: * Ability to run tasks on many servers from one central location (Preferably using SSH). * Ability to process

RE: Need recommendation for task scheduler

2006-04-26 Thread Chen Shapira
be a su-chef if its still needed. -Original Message- From: marc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 10:38 AM To: Yedidyah Bar-David Cc: Chen Shapira; linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il Subject: Re: Need recommendation for task scheduler -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash

Re: Need recommendation for task scheduler

2006-04-26 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Chen Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I probably didn't explain myself well, because I seem to get suggestions that are a bit different from what I had in mind. Ah, that's because the words schedule and scheduler are so heavily overloaded... Sorry for the noise... The idea is that I have

Re: Need recommendation for task scheduler

2006-04-26 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Chen Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The idea is that I have jobs that I want every machine in my network to do on a schedule: backups, exports, generate daily reports, delete garbage files, run a test, etc. etc. So why don't you just use cron on a central

Re: Need recommendation for task scheduler

2006-04-26 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Shachar Shemesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You can even rig up a cron on a central management station that will ssh to other machines and run the jobs via at(1). If you're using cron already, why not run the entire process by cron? I believe this is true: ssh will tie local streams with the

RE: Need recommendation for task scheduler

2006-04-26 Thread Orna Agmon
On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, Chen Shapira wrote: Hi, I probably didn't explain myself well, because I seem to get suggestions that are a bit different from what I had in mind. The idea is that I have jobs that I want every machine in my network to do on a schedule: backups, exports, generate daily

Re: Need recommendation for task scheduler

2006-04-26 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Orna Agmon wrote: On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, Chen Shapira wrote: For this I would indeed combine it with a script which will deal with make's failures, and perform a different target. Or is there a way to do this from inside make? Make rules are being processed by /bin/sh, seperate shell

Re: Need recommendation for task scheduler

2006-04-26 Thread Yonah Russ
the revival. I can also be a su-chef if its still needed.-Original Message-From: marc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 10:38 AMTo: Yedidyah Bar-DavidCc: Chen Shapira; linux-il@cs.huji.ac.ilSubject: Re: Need recommendation for task scheduler-BEGIN PGP SIGNED