conversing with the shell
Michaell Taylor
michaell.taylor at reis.com
Mon Nov 19 14:47:40 EST 2001
I am looking to build a VERY simple load balance app for batch job submission
on several linux machines. The basic structure that I have in mind is.
For M in list_of_machines:
fm = 'rsh '+M+' "cat /proc/meminfo"'
fcpu = 'rsh '+M+' uptime'
freemem = SOMECOMMAND(fm)
freecpu = SOMECOMMAND(fcpu)
.
.
parse output of freemem and freecpu
.
.
.
select machine
submit job using rsh
BUT...
Problem is of course the SOMECOMMAND lines. I need to query the shell for
input and then read that input in as a variable. I could use the shell
commands to redirect the output to a file and then read the file with python,
but this seems like a waste.
FYI, there are only 6-8 machines and fairly low frequency usage, so larger
load balancing seems like overkill.
Thanks in advance
Michaell
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