Jobman – nohup with retries, timeouts, and dependencies
I've long used nohup for background processes that I want to run independently of the terminal. These types of jobs are usually long-running, sometimes launched over an SSH connection, and often have dependencies on other jobs. I built Jobman to combine the simplicity of nohup with features I previously wrote one-off shell scripts for, including: - retries - timeouts - dependencies between jobs - email or webhook notifications on completion or failure - separate stdout and stderr logging with a combined observed-order view Jobman does this with a small per-job supervisor process; there's no…
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A daemon-less command line job manager with flexible support for retries, timeouts, logging, notifications, and more. - ryancswallace/Jobman
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I've long used nohup for background processes that I want to run independently of the terminal. These types of jobs are usually long-running, sometimes launched over an SSH connection, and often have dependencies on other jobs. I built Jobman to combine the simplicity of nohup with features I previously wrote one-off shell scripts for, including: - retries - timeouts - dependencies between jobs - email or webhook notifications on completion or failure - separate stdout and stderr logging with a combined observed-order view Jobman does this with a small per-job supervisor process; there's no shared daemon to run. It uses SQLite for job and run metadata and plain files for log storage. It's intended to be a local, per-user tool, not a system-wide or distributed scheduler. Jobman is written in Go and has releases available for Linux, macOS, and Windows. Here's an example session using Jobman to launch a Python script, examine its logs, and check its status: $ jobman run --name import-data --retries 3 --run-timeout 30m \ --retry-timeouts -- python3 ./import_data.py 019fddfe-23bb-732d-a869-2aaee43c03d7 $ jobman logs --follow import-data Starting import... Imported batch 1/3. Imported batch 2/3. ^C $ jobman status import-data 019fddfe-23bb-732d-a869-2aaee43c03d7 import-data running Above, the Ctrl-C stopped `logs --follow`, while the Python process continued under Jobman. Do you see Jobman replacing any combinations of tools you currently use (nohup, tmux, screen, systemd-run)? If Jobman looks useful to you, let me know what types of jobs you would use it for.
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