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

[Reuti]

Am 08.06.2012 um 20:35 schrieb Peter Valdemar Mørch:

> Guys, thank you so much for taking the time to reply to me.
> 
> I was hoping to find a tool where I could provide of list of jobs and
> say "Run these every 15 minutes spread-out over the interval, store
> the output, $? and execution times for me should I need it later,
> expiring that book-keeping after 96 hours".
> 
> It sounds to me to be we'll still need to get into the nitty-gritty of
> spacing the jobs out over the interval, storing the output etc.

This can be done by a counter like I showed in GNUbatch to limit the number of 
"jobs at a time".

But the ouptut of all runs need to be handled by another "housekeeping" job to 
remove them if they are older than 96 hrs (maybe with a `find` in the 
jobscript).

-- Reuti


> E.g.
> if I don't know up-front how long the jobs take to execute, I don't
> know how many slots I'll need. And if I need to get into that level of
> detailed planning and storing output anyway, we might as well just
> have our own home-grown solution all the way.
> 
> So to me it sounds like there isn't a good fit.
> 
> Again, thank you so much for your time.
> 
> Peter
> -- 
> Peter Valdemar Mørch
> http://www.morch.com
> 
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