The other day I released XgridLite for Leopard, something which should have happened about a year and a half ago. There are no substantial changes whatsoever, except that version 1.1 works on Leopard. However, it breaks Tiger support, so if you haven’t upgraded yet—I suspect a small minority of the kind of people that use XgridLite—you should still use version 1.0.2.
Ed –
Check this for me if you will… the “Click lock to make changes.” button on the Xgridlite preferences pane bounces, that is, it won’t allow me to close it. When I try it graphically closes the lock, then instantly pops up an authorization dialogue box, which when completed re-opens the lock…. All other preferences are acting normally.
See what you get.
Would’ve emailed, but couldn’t find an address.
Brad
Confirmed bad behavior. May be hard to get around without breaking other functionality—the reason it’s happening is that the xgridctl tool used to get status requires running as root in Leopard (not true in Tiger). (I could, e.g., disable status updates when not authenticated.)
hi, thanks for your great software.
One question: does it work on snow leopard?
I have had some issues getting the whole xgrid thing going, using my machine as both the controller and agent. I pretty much followed the tutorial here:
http://www.jambot.com/blog/index.php
However, while the jobs appeared in the job list (in xgrid admin), they didn’t seem to actually run properly (went straight to finished status without executing).
Any ideas?
Hi Piyush,
If jobs are showing up in Xgrid Admin, XgridLite is doing its part properly—all it does is activate Xgrid.
You can use the xgrid command-line tool to do things like get stderr, stdout from your jobs (maybe also in Xgrid Admin—it’s actually been a while since I’ve used Xgrid). If things are mysterious: I’d recommend running an incredibly simple job (like echo) to make sure the basic stuff is working, then start digging into your problem.
Also, in case you’re not aware: by default Xgrid jobs run sandboxed as the user “nobody,” so they won’t be able to write data anywhere on your hard drive.
–Ed
Hi,
i’m just toying around with XGrid lite – a cosmetic issue is that the Snow Leopard Pref pane has to be restarted in 32 bit mode when entering XGridLite. Would you be so kind to compile a 64 bit version?