GNUBATCH.CONF(5)

NAME
gnubatch.conf - master configuration file

DESCRIPTION
gnubatch.conf is an optional file for reconfiguring the GNUbatch batch management system.

This may be useful for relocating standard files and directories, such as SPOOLDIR so that a different spool directory is used. However completely arbitrary environment variable assignments may be made so as to pass the resulting environment on to various subprocesses invoked by the scheduler.

Note that as the environment is assigned early within gbch-r(1), then any jobs created will have these environment variables assigned. However there is an alternative syntax (see below) to avoid this.

The format of the file consists of two different forms of assignment.

"SPOOLDIR=/usr2/spooldir"
    Sets up the given environment variable in all programs and jobs invoked by GNUbatch.

"SPOOLDIR:/usr2/spooldir"
    Denotes environment variables which should not be passed on to subprocesses, or to jobs created by gbch-r(1).

Comment lines may be included, introduced by a # sign, and blank lines are ignored.

The latter environment assignment format is used by default in the installation process for GNUbatch.

Every component program of GNUbatch examines this file and resets its environment from this file as the first step of execution.

FILES
gnubatch.conf

SEE ALSO
gbch-r(1) gbch-q(1), gbch-var(1), gbch-jdel(1), gbch-jlist(1), gbch-vlist(1), gbch-jchange(1), gbch-user(1), gbch-charge(1), gbch-start(1), gbch-quit(1).

COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

AUTHOR
John M Collins, Xi Software Ltd.