Re: [Taskforest-discuss] Job dependencies

[Aijaz A. <en...@us...>]

Jay:

Wow.  I can't believe I left that out!  You're right, there's a lot of
explanation of the basic case that's missing.  Thanks for pointing it out.

Coming back to your question:

A job is dependent on any job that appears on a line above it.

In the example below, J_RESOLVE_DNS is dependent on J_ROTATE_LOGS.
Delete_Old_Logs() is also dependent on J_ROTATE_LOGS.  Since both are on the
same line, the will start at the same time, and run in parallel. Both these
jobs will only run if J_ROTATE_LOGS runs succesfully (or is marked
successful after a failed run).

Similarly, J_WEB_REPORTS will only run after both J_RESOLVE_DNS and
Delete_Old_Logs both complete successfully.

Finally, job dependencies are only valid for the section that the jobs are
in (a section is a section of text in the family file delimited by a line of
dashes ("-----------------")).  See Example 4 for more details - There are 3
sections in that example.

Does this help?  Please let me know if my explanation isn't clear.

Thanks for your offer to patch the docs.  I don't have SVN set up on
SourceForge yet, but if you can submit the patch via SourceForge or email me
the text, I'll put it in with the appropriate attribution.

Thanks again,

Aijaz.

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Jay Hannah <jh...@om...> wrote:

>  http://www.taskforest.com/docs/configuring/families.html
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> "EXAMPLE 2 - Job Dependencies" seems to skip over explaining the basics of
> what this means:
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> 03 |               J_ROTATE_LOGS()
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> 05 | J_RESOLVE_DNS()       Delete_Old_Logs()
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> 07 |               J_WEB_REPORTS()
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> 09 |    J_EMAIL_WEB_RPT_DONE()  # send me a notification
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> Is a job dependent on another job if it's listed on a line below the first?
> On the same line, but to the right? Both? Neither?
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> Which of the jobs above are dependent on the others?
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> If someone can explain that and give me a commit bit to your version
> control I'd be happy to attempt patches to your docs for your consideration.
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> Thanks,
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> j
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