simple and easy linux job queue

Recently I have been in a situation where I needed a simple ‘batch’ job scheduler, where I could submit some long-running tasks to a server and have a ‘system’ that serialize access the execution with some basic job control facilities (remove a job from the queue, stop the processing, and so on). Linux printing subsystem is already designed to do this, and we can exploit the CUPS printing subsystem to run our “batch” jobs....

December 21, 2015 · Andrea Manzini