Re: [help-gnubatch] Run only one job at a time

[Reuti]

Am 17.05.2013 um 17:40 schrieb Reuti:

> Hi,
> 
> Am 17.05.2013 um 05:09 schrieb Raniere Silva:
> 
>> I need to setup a queue of jobs from many users to run in a machine but only
>> one job can run at a time. Can I do that with GNUbatch?
> 
> You can define variable and decrement it by each start of a job while the 
> availability is at the same time the condition for the job to start:
> 
> $ gbch-r -c "myvar>0" -s "myvar-=1" test.sh
> 
> By default the change to myvar will be reversed at the end of the job 
> automatically.

I forgot: the variable myvar needs to be defined as 1 for the above to work. 
Maybe the reverse and leaving the initial value at zero would be convenient:

$ gbch-r -c "myvar<1" -s "myvar+=1" test.sh

-- Reuti


> -- Reuti
> 
> 
>> Thanks,
>> Raniere
>> 
> 
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