gridengine.info

This is a follow-up post relating to the new Apple framework for starting, stopping and managing persistent daemons and services called "launchd". The issue of Grid Engine interoperability with the launchd framework has already been covered in a gridengine.info Wiki article.

The new news to report is that my coworker Bill Van Etten stumbled upon the SGE environment variable "SGE_ND" and realized that it could be useful for Apple launchd integration because launchd really hates daemons that fork off ASAP upon startup. By setting the "SGE_ND" variable to true, the daemons don't fork and can be better managed by launchd.

The new launchd scripts are discussed and available for download here:
http://blog.bioteam.net/2008/03/04/apple-os-x-105-launchd-scripts-for-grid-engine/

Feel free to use these scripts or simply refer to them when customizing your own. As always, feedback and comments would be appreciated. BioTeam remains committed to making sure SGE remains an excellent choice for use on OS X based systems.