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?

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

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?

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