UNIX scheduler product

Mon Jun 14 15:09:48 PDT 2004

On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Ron Leedy wrote:
> Does anyone know of a job scheduler with the following specs:
>
> - A centralized repository for several servers
> - Flow control (success exits kick off releases another job)
> - Alert e-mails for non-success exits
> - History of scheduled jobs and exit statuses
> - Solaris and Linux support
>
> Guess I want my days of working with MVS without paying the Big Blue
> ticket

Have a look at Sun Grid Engine: http://gridengine.sunsource.net/

It's open-source, has many, many features, is very stable, has a large
user base, runs on all sorts of Unices and Windows, etc. etc.

-- Alf.

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