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NQS For Linux/ELF (BETA)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Thu Aug 17 21:47:57 1995
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 00:09:07 +0300
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
From: S.Herbert@sheffield.ac.uk (S L Herbert)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: NQS For Linux/ELF (BETA)
Organization: Sheffield University, UK
Keywords: NQS Linux ELF Sheffield Monsanto Generic COSMIC
Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
Followup-to: comp.os.linux.development.apps
Hi,
v3.40.0 of Generic NQS, a freely-available version of the Network Queueing
System, is now available, in BETA form, from :
ftp://ftp.shef.ac.uk/uni/projects/nqs/latest/Generic-NQS-PRE-RELEASE.tar.gz
Our site is mirrored by suniste.unc.edu, where it will be available from
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Network/distrib/nqs/latest/
Generic-NQS-PRE-RELEASE.tar.gz
A brief changelog for recent versions is included below. The main thing to
note for Linux users is that Linux/ELF is now supported from this release
onwards. This release was tested with libc-5.1.4, and gcc-2.7.0.
Although this release should work with the a.out C library, this
configuration will not be supported from now on by us (although patches
are always welcome).
More information (including detailed ChangeLogs, bug lists, problem
reporting, mailing list archives, etc etc) can be found from
http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/projects/nqs/
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The Network Queueing System (NQS) is the de facto standard batch
processing system for UNIX, with freely available versions available from
CERN, and the University of Sheffield, and commercial versions available
from vendors such as Cray and Sterling Software.
Our version, Generic NQS, is the successor to the popular Monsanto-NQS
release. It is widely used within UK Academia, and around the world.
There is support for a number of operating systems :
AIX, Fujitsu, HPUX, IRIX 4,5,6, Linux, Linux/ELF, NCR, OSF/1, Solaris,
SunOS, ULTRIX
Generic NQS is derived from the original COSMIC NQS, by NASA, and is fully
interoperable (at the networking level) with other versions of NQS.
Generic NQS is released under version 1 of the FSF's GPL.
There are a number of mailing lists available for this product - see the
WWW URL above for further details.
Regards,
Stu
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Stuart Herbert Academic Computing Services, University of Sheffield
UNIX Support (0114) 282 4254 (External) / Ext 4254 (Internal)
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Summary Of Changes To NQS
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Generic NQS 3.40.0: Currently in testing
g o New Name
a o Quota Support Improved
a o Unanticipated Transaction Failure Fix (ALL PLATFORMS)
a o Compilation Fixes (ULTRIX)
f o Support For Fujitsu VP2200/20 (FUJITSU)
a o Compilation Fixes (AIX)
f o Removal of BSDish Code (LINUX/ELF + SOLARIS 2)
c o New Documentation
a o Scheduling Fix On Startup (ALL PLATFORMS)
e o NIS Netgroups In /etc/hosts.equiv (ALL PLATFORMS)
a o More Environment Variable Fixes (ALL PLATFORMS)
a o qcat -u Fixed (ALL PLATFORMS)
a o Email Messages Corrected (ALL PLATFORMS)
a o ANSI C Cleanups (ALL PLATFORMS)
c o Previous Changes Available in `OldChanges' File
Monsanto NQS 3.37.1: Wed, 12th July, 1995
b o qacct.c Now Compiles (Fix for stupid error)
Monsanto NQS 3.37.0: Mon, 10th July, 1995
f o Native 64-bit IRIX Support
d o Modified Makefiles
Monsanto NQS 3.36.7: Unreleased test version
a o HPUX 8 Support Improved
a o IRIX 5 Support Improved
e o AIX Compiler Drivers
e o Non-ANSI Compilers Detected
a o OSF/1 SIGSEGV Fixes
a o AIX Nice Values
a o Environment Variable Fixes
e o Debugging Patches
a o qstat Output Modified
b o Linux Support For FFSTND
b o IRIX 6 Compilation Error Fixed
Monsanto NQS 3.36.6: Tue, 17th January 1995
f o Support For NCR UNIX (AT&T)
f o Support For OSF/1 v3.0
b o More HPUX Fixes
a o Solaris 2.1 Work-Around
e o CPU Limits Enforced On IRIX 5/6
b o OSF/1 v2.0 Compilation Failure Fixed
c o Formal Bug-List Included
e o Debugging Code Added
Monsanto NQS 3.36.5: Thu, 22nd December 1994
a o Solaris 2 Cluster Fix
a o HPUX Process Stats Fix
e o SunOS & Solaris Process Stats
b o Linux Makefile Added
f o OSF/1 2.0 Support
Monsanto NQS 3.36.4: Tue, 22nd November 1994
f o IRIX 6.0 Support & ANSI Prototypes
e o Processor Set Support
e o qacct(1) Patches
a o Quota support fixed
Monsanto NQS 3.36.3: (no record of release date)
a o Bug in qacct(1) fixed
Monsanto NQS 3.36.2: (no record of release date)
f o New OS Supported : Linux
Monsanto NQS 3.36.1: (no record of release date)
a o Compilation Problem
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Summary :
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Patch Statistics | No | Percentage
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(a) Changes To Code | 21 | 43.75
(b) Changes To Fix Previous Changes | 6 | 12.50
(c) Documentation | 3 | 6.25
(d) Improved Installation | 1 | 2.08
(e) New Functionality | 8 | 16.67
(f) New Operating Systems/Versions | 8 | 16.67
(g) Other | 1 | 2.08
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Total | 48 | 100.00
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Contrbutor Statistics | No | Percentage
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Contributors From UK Academic Sites | 2 | 15.38
Contributors From Other Sites | 11 | 84.62
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Total | 13 | 100.00
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Miscellaneous Statistics | No
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Released Versions | 8
Unreleased Versions | 1
Average Change Per Version | 5
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