On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 12:19 PM Cameron Simpson <cs@cskk.id.au> wrote:

If you can define a task in a single line of text

I can define my tasks in a single command line.

you could run
something like this on the server:

tail -f task_list.txt | while read -r spec; do run the task from $spec; done

Nice.

Put that in a tmux or screen session.

Task submission is then just appending a spec to the text file:

echo "specification here" >> task_list.txt

Love it.

Dumb as rocks, but effective. I've run simple workers like this.

I might build a nice wrapper around it, but that will work.

Probably "run the task from $spec" should invoke a shell script to run
exactly one task collecting the output, logging the times etc.

I can redirect the task output to text files so I can check what happened after the fact.

Thanks for the reply.