Wikimedia Labs/Tool Labs/Rules
As part of the Wikimedia Labs, Tool Labs is subject to the general Labs Terms of Use, and is governed by the following additional rules:
- Do not use your personal account for noninteractive use:
- Any process intended to keep running while you are not actively interacting with it (e.g., through a detached
screen
session, in the background, or thoughcron
) must be run through a tool account, and not your personally account.
- Any process intended to keep running while you are not actively interacting with it (e.g., through a detached
- Do not run noninteractive processes on the bastion servers:
- Likewise, any process meant to execute without direct interaction should be submitted to the grid (through
jsub
, for instance) and not run on the login hosts. It is permissible to usecron
for lightweight processes (such as submitting a job, or rotating logs) but cron should not be used for anything that runs for more than a few seconds or consumes large amounts of resources.
- Likewise, any process meant to execute without direct interaction should be submitted to the grid (through