[Queue-developers] GNU Queue development alive and well? (help needed with RH7.2 and 7.3)

[Lou E. <lo...@un...>]

Hi (any GNU Queue developer),

We have been running GNU Queue (queue-1.30.1) on a http RedHat
x86 server cluster for about a year now.  Over the last week
I've been getting a replacement server with RH7.3 configured
with the last step being the installation and successful
running of queue-1.30.1 or queue-1.40.1beta -- with not much
luck.  Upon checking with SourceForge, I noticed that Werner Krebs
was bowing out, there hasn't been much discussion on
GNU Queue development since about mid-2001, and nobody's responded
to the last several questions posed on the SourceForge
Open Discussion forum.  Werner suggested looking at GNQS, but at:

http://www.gnqs.org/oldgnqs/docs/starter_pack/alternatives/

and other pages at the GNQS site it sounds like its primary
developer is bowing out as well and is pushing GNU Queue as
the alternative!

We run GNU queue in a very limited way, with jobs looking like:

queue -i -w -h <DNSname> -- <job>

from the http server to one of the other RedHat x86 nodes
i.e. we aren't interested in automatic average load-balancing,
because the server keeps track of when these specific jobs are
completed so we can immediately reuse the fastest CPU available.
Thus Werner's suggestion of Mosix and Condor (which, admittedly,
I've just poked around on the Web sites), which sound primarily
like just batch and load-balancing queueing, don't seem to
mesh with our requirements.  GNU Queue also preserves the current
working directory and user ID, which turns out to be very handy
for us.  Needless to say, we'd really like to see GNU Queue be
alive and well, and would like help getting GNU Queue going on
Redhat 7.2 and 7.3.

So, is there anybody out there still working on or interested in
working on GNU Queue?

If so, what's the status on Linux?  I don't understand the code
in detail, but can provide copious testing on RedHat 7.1, 7.2 and
7.3  (and our original 6.2 system while it's still up).

If, on the other hand, GNU Queue development is dead (at least
for a while), someone ought to write a definite email to
SourceForge, so that

http://sourceforge.net/projects/queue/

really reflects the current status.

cheers,
--lou

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