Poor Man's Job Runner (pmjrunner)

Do you work with batch programs new and old? Do these programs reside on different servers / platforms? Do you want to execute these programs in sequence without gaps, and honor the dependencies between them? Do you want the console output of these jobs automatically logged, organized, and rotated? When a program advents, do you want an easy way to restart / finish the sequence without worrying about missing steps or breaking their dependencies? Do you want to do all of this by editing one simple config file?

If the answer is yes, give this tool a try. We've been using it in production for over a year now. Very nice... especially when batch programs misbehave.

Introducing pmjrunner

pmjrunner is short for Poor Man's Job Runner (download). It's designed to be used in combination with your OS's default scheduler to provide for the intelligent execution or restart of a sequence of batch programs that have dependencies between them. Used in combination with a tool like SSH, pmjrunner can be used to execute a sequence of batch programs across different nodes and OS's. And yes, it runs great on both Linux and Windows.

For more on how it works, view the comments in pmjrunner.pl (or run it using the -h option). See the README.txt for setup info.

Updates since original posting:
v1.4.4 2012.12.14
v1.4.3 2012.10.26
v1.4.2 2012.10.10

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