[help-gnubatch] ( [PATCH] Bump version in debian/changelog to 1.4 also ) + newbie question

[Peter Valdemar Mørch]

Simple enough patch...

Is there a searchable archive anywhere?

Newbie questions about whether GNUBatch is for us:

We're looking for a scheduler similar to the one built-in to nagios
that allows us to run many small jobs where the scheduler takes care
of determining when to actually run them, we just want to be
guaranteed that they all get run at least every 15 minutes (as an
example).  And that as jobs get added/removed, the scheduler
automatically re-arranges the scheduling to smoothe out the load. I'd
rather we didn't get into the specifics of "job 458 needs to run at
15:23:33", but more "these 1200 jobs all need to run every 15
minutes".

Other jobs are more "normal" and need to run exactly at specific
times. These other "normal" jobs should not interfere with the "small
job pool" above.

We'd like later to be able to view the output ($? + stdout + stderr)
of specific job runs, see when they started and examine how long they
took. Because of the number of jobs, this info needs to expire /
rotate / be deleted after some time.

Is GNUBatch the tool for us? If so, how do we achieve the "small job
pool"? I'm guessing with variables, but how?

Also, I read in the GNUbatch reference manual, that "The time at which
a job is scheduled to start can be specified by date and time to the
nearest minute" :-( The lack of second-specific scheduling leads me
towards "not for us" - is that a hard limit, can it be overcome
somehow, or is it solvable by some "small job pool" pattern above?

If GNUBatch isn't really for us, can anybody recommend something else
given my outline above?

Peter

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Peter Valdemar Mørch
http://www.morch.com

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