SGE launchd script maker for Apple OS X 10.5 Leopard

July 15th, 2008 • Related • Filed Under

This post is a follow-up to the article discussing Bill Van Etten’s OS X Launchd scripts for Grid Engine.

We now have a perl script that will automatically create site-appropriate launchd plist files for Grid Engine – the files are constructed by querying the SGE environment variables and running one of the SGE utility scripts. This may be a more convenient method than downloading our plist files and hand-editing them via the Apple plist editor program.

The new-in-Leopard “launchd” framewortk is Apple’s preferred system for handling system services and daemons. For more background on why launchd may be critical to Grid Engine on 10.5 systems (especially OS X Server 10.5.4 and later …) please visit the Grid Engine wiki page covering Apple Launchd:

http://wiki.gridengine.info/wiki/index.php/GridEngine_launchd

Download the script here:

sge-launchd-scriptmaker

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  1. Comment by Charles Howes on 28 January 2010:

    There’s a modification to this script in the snowleopard version of inquiry.

    Instead of running sge_qmaster by itself, it runs /common/sge/util/bootmaster.sh. This script contains the following code (on my system, at least):

    ————–cut-here—–>8——-
    #!/bin/sh

    hostname=`hostname`
    while [ $hostname = 'localhost' ];
    do
    sleep 1
    hostname=`hostname`
    done
    exec /common/sge/bin/darwin-x86/sge_qmaster
    echo 99
    —————–cut-here—-8<—-

    Note: as the plist files were already present on the system, this script is not needed. I think.

  2. Comment by blogadmin on 28 January 2010:

    I don’t have time to write a new blog post but I wanted to put a quick note here that this script works perfectly fine with OS X 10.6 “Snow Leopard” server. We’ll write a new post in the future documenting SGE 6.2 on OS X Server 10.6.x

  3. Pingback by Grid Engine 6.2 on Mac OS X : BioTeam Inc. on 7 February 2010:

    [...] Download and run the sge-launchd-scriptmaker tarball from this BioTeam Blog post. [...]

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