The jobd Job Framework

Mark Heily

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Table of Contents

1. Overview
Synopsis
Terminology
2. Design of the Job Framework
Features
Capsicum
3. Designing tools that use the Job Framework
Service management
Terminology
A. Manual pages
jobadm — administer jobd and the job database
jobcfg — configure jobs
jobctl — control jobs
job — configuration format for jobd
jobd — job management daemon