Installing Messenger For Multi-node Task-Spooler

Messenger Server #

On a base apt-based distro install the Task-Spooler Messenger Server:

sudo apt install -y libboost-dev libboost-system-dev libboost-thread-dev libboost-filesystem-dev

pushd messenger/messenger-server
sudo ./install
popd

Configure the messenger-server ms_server by creating ~/.hosts_ports with a port for listening to client messages.

echo "xxx $THISHOSTPORT" >> ~/.hosts_ports

Start the server with the command ms_server.

Messenger Client #

On a base apt-based distro install the Messenger Client:

pushd messenger/messenger-client
sudo ./install
popd

Create a file called ~/.servers_ports to configure task-spooler hosts to use with the messenger-client.

Overlooked Tools: task-spooler

Sometimes sophisticated job queue and cluster systems are overkill on office or individual PCs, especially for long lists of batch processing jobs that use comparatively few resources.

Use task-spooler to queue commands on Linux and control the number of simultaneous jobs for an easy way to parallelize a list of batch jobs! This tool is a great complement to some other command line workhorses like at and batch.

Task-spooler is not usually installed by default on Linux systems. It can be built by scratch after getting the source from https://vicerveza.homeunix.net/~viric/soft/ts/ or on Ubuntu (maybe other Debian based OS’s) you can use apt: