PROLOG | NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | OPTIONS | OPERANDS | STDIN | INPUT FILES | ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES | ASYNCHRONOUS EVENTS | STDOUT | STDERR | OUTPUT FILES | EXTENDED DESCRIPTION | EXIT STATUS | CONSEQUENCES OF ERRORS | APPLICATION USAGE | EXAMPLES | RATIONALE | FUTURE DIRECTIONS | SEE ALSO | COPYRIGHT

QMSG(1P)                  POSIX Programmer's Manual                 QMSG(1P)

PROLOG         top

       This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual.  The Linux
       implementation of this interface may differ (consult the
       corresponding Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior), or
       the interface may not be implemented on Linux.

NAME         top

       qmsg — send message to batch jobs

SYNOPSIS         top

       qmsg [−EO] message_string job_identifier...

DESCRIPTION         top

       To send a message to a batch job is to request that a server write a
       message string into one or more output files of the batch job. A
       message is sent to a batch job by a request to the batch server that
       manages the batch job. The qmsg utility is a user-accessible batch
       client that requests the sending of messages to one or more batch
       jobs.
       The qmsg utility shall write messages into the files of batch jobs by
       sending a Job Message Request to the batch server that manages the
       batch job. The qmsg utility shall not directly write the message into
       the files of the batch job.
       The qmsg utility shall send a Job Message Request for those batch
       jobs, and only those batch jobs, for which a batch job_identifier is
       presented to the utility.
       The qmsg utility shall send Job Message Requests for batch jobs in
       the order in which their batch job_identifiers are presented to the
       utility.
       If the qmsg utility fails to process any batch job_identifier
       successfully, the utility shall proceed to process the remaining
       batch job_identifiers, if any.
       The qmsg utility shall not exit before a Job Message Request has been
       sent to the server that manages the batch job that corresponds to
       each successfully processed batch job_identifier.

OPTIONS         top

       The qmsg utility shall conform to the Base Definitions volume of
       POSIX.1‐2008, Section 12.2, Utility Syntax Guidelines.
       The following options shall be supported by the implementation:
       −E        Specify that the message is written to the standard error
                 of each batch job.
                 The qmsg utility shall write the message into the standard
                 error of the batch job.
       −O        Specify that the message is written to the standard output
                 of each batch job.
                 The qmsg utility shall write the message into the standard
                 output of the batch job.
       If neither the −O nor the −E option is presented to the qmsg utility,
       the utility shall write the message into an implementation-defined
       file. The conformance document for the implementation shall describe
       the name and location of the implementation-defined file. If both the
       −O and the −E options are presented to the qmsg utility, then the
       utility shall write the messages to both standard output and standard
       error.

OPERANDS         top

       The qmsg utility shall accept a minimum of two operands,
       message_string and one or more batch job_identifiers.
       The message_string operand shall be the string to be written to one
       or more output files of the batch job followed by a <newline>.  If
       the string contains <blank> characters, then the application shall
       ensure that the string is quoted. The message_string shall be encoded
       in the portable character set (see the Base Definitions volume of
       POSIX.1‐2008, Section 6.1, Portable Character Set).
       All remaining operands are batch job_identifiers that conform to the
       syntax for a batch job_identifier (see Section 3.3.1, Batch Job
       Identifier).

STDIN         top

       Not used.

INPUT FILES         top

       None.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES         top

       The following environment variables shall affect the execution of
       qmsg:
       LANG      Provide a default value for the internationalization
                 variables that are unset or null. (See the Base Definitions
                 volume of POSIX.1‐2008, Section 8.2, Internationalization
                 Variables the precedence of internationalization variables
                 used to determine the values of locale categories.)
       LC_ALL    If set to a non-empty string value, override the values of
                 all the other internationalization variables.
       LC_CTYPE  Determine the locale for the interpretation of sequences of
                 bytes of text data as characters (for example, single-byte
                 as opposed to multi-byte characters in arguments).
       LC_MESSAGES
                 Determine the locale that should be used to affect the
                 format and contents of diagnostic messages written to
                 standard error.
       LOGNAME   Determine the login name of the user.

ASYNCHRONOUS EVENTS         top

       Default.

STDOUT         top

       None.

STDERR         top

       The standard error shall be used only for diagnostic messages.

OUTPUT FILES         top

       None.

EXTENDED DESCRIPTION         top

       None.

EXIT STATUS         top

       The following exit values shall be returned:
        0    Successful completion.
       >0    An error occurred.

CONSEQUENCES OF ERRORS         top

       In addition to the default behavior, the qmsg utility shall not be
       required to write a diagnostic message to standard error when the
       error reply received from a batch server indicates that the batch
       job_identifier does not exist on the server. Whether or not the qmsg
       utility waits to output the diagnostic message while attempting to
       locate the job on other servers is implementation-defined.
       The following sections are informative.

APPLICATION USAGE         top

       None.

EXAMPLES         top

       None.

RATIONALE         top

       The qmsg utility allows users to write messages into the output files
       of running jobs. Users, including operators and administrators, have
       a number of occasions when they want to place messages in the output
       files of a batch job. For example, if a disk that is being used by a
       batch job is showing errors, the operator might note this in the
       standard error stream of the batch job.
       The options of the qmsg utility provide users with the means of
       placing the message in the output stream of their choice. The default
       output stream for the message—if the user does not designate an
       output stream—is implementation-defined, since many implementations
       will provide, as an extension to this volume of POSIX.1‐2008, a log
       file that shows the history of utility execution.
       If users wish to send a message to a set of jobs that meet a
       selection criteria, the qselect utility can be used to acquire the
       appropriate list of job identifiers.
       The −E option allows users to place the message in the standard error
       stream of the batch job.
       The −O option allows users to place the message in the standard
       output stream of the batch job.
       Historically, the qmsg utility is an existing practice in the
       offerings of one or more implementors of an NQS-derived batch system.
       The utility has been found to be useful enough that it deserves to be
       included in this volume of POSIX.1‐2008.

FUTURE DIRECTIONS         top

       The qmsg utility may be removed in a future version.

SEE ALSO         top

       Chapter 3, Batch Environment Services, qselect(1p)
       The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2008, Section 6.1, Portable
       Character Set, Chapter 8, Environment Variables, Section 12.2,
       Utility Syntax Guidelines

COPYRIGHT         top

       Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form
       from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2013 Edition, Standard for Information
       Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open
       Group Base Specifications Issue 7, Copyright (C) 2013 by the
       Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open
       Group.  (This is POSIX.1-2008 with the 2013 Technical Corrigendum 1
       applied.) In the event of any discrepancy between this version and
       the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and
       The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original
       Standard can be obtained online at http://www.unix.org/online.html .
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