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This might be weird to ask, since in all these years I've never used a Mac as a "remote scheduler", but this is what I need now.

Can you recommend a batch job scheduler?

What I need is to login via ssh, launch commands and be able to exit from the shell. When the system will be able, the scheduler will run my job (usually a shell script). It would be cool to have the system send an email when it finishes.

I have seen screen or at, but it's not what I'd really need (at requires a time, and screen is just a shell that can be detached). With these tools I need to manually schedule jobs. I've used some clustering facilities under linux, using qsub to submit jobs, and it was neat.

However, installing torque might be really cumbersome, and I am stuck with it. It needs openssl-devel and I don't know how to install that, I thought using homebrew and installing openssl (with the correct $PATH) would be sufficient, but it's not.

Do you have any "easy" to setup batch scheduler recommendation?

Thanks!

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    You question is about a scheduler and yet you said, ..."at, but it's not what I'd really need (at requires a time"... Well that's ironic! Isn't the very nature of a scheduler to do something at a set or given date and time?
    – user3439894
    Jan 30, 2016 at 0:17
  • Sort of. A batch scheduler will execute commands subsequently without prior knowledge on the time it will take. The at command requires a time, so I need to estimate it, and I will always fail in this :)
    – senseiwa
    Jan 31, 2016 at 9:06
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    So in your question, why didn't you just simply say you're looking for an event driven batch job scheduler? :)
    – user3439894
    Jan 31, 2016 at 14:35
  • Because it's not event driven usually, as Torque, but I didn't see the source to know how it determines when and where to execute something. It doesn't compile, I won't read the docs until it does :)
    – senseiwa
    Jan 31, 2016 at 18:49

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Looking at the List of job scheduler software at WikipediA which support event driven job scheduling and lists OS X as a Platform was only one package, JobServer by Grand Logic.

Being that this info is from WikipediA, this of course by no means is necessarily a complete and or authoritative list, however it's a place to start.

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