The log file produced by labschedule has a format similar to that produced by labrun. It contains, however, information relevant only to the scheduling of the different tasks. In uses therefore a different set of labels and values as described in the following table.
| label | explanation |
| labschedule Release | release number of labschedule |
| Start date | format: weekday month day HH:MM:SS timezone year |
| Hosts | the set of hosts labschedule had to choose from |
| Current dir | the directory in which labschedule was called |
| Output file | the output file, containing output of successful experiments |
| Error file | the error file, containing output for unsuccessful experiments |
| Command line | the labschedule command |
| Command | the executable command for the tasks scheduled |
| Stop date | format: weekday month day HH:MM:SS timezone year |
Between Command and Stop date there are two lines for each experiment that is run with the following format:
HH:MM:SS: <host>: started '%1-%2-...'.
HH:MM:SS: <host>: finished '%1-%2-...' [<error message>].
where HH:MM:SS is the time a particular job was started or finished
and the variables %1, %2, etc. are substituted with their values for each
particular experiment. If an experiment fails, a message containing its
error code and the command that caused this failure will be repeated.
Experiments that are skipped are also so noted in the log file.
Example:
schedule-sample.log
labschedule Release: 0.6 Start date: Thu Nov 7 14:59:23 CET 2002 Hosts: mpino1109 Current dir: ~/tool_set/explab/example/tutorial Output file: ./lab_log/schedule-2002-11-07-145923.out Error file: ./lab_log/schedule-2002-11-07-145923.err Command line: /home/hert/bin/labschedule -f range\(100,200,50\) -f + 10\ 20 labmex sort-demo %1 %2 Command: labrun --log=/home/hert/example/tutorial/lab_log + --name=schedule-%1-%2 labmex sort-demo %1 %2 14:59:23: mpino1109: started '100-10'. 14:59:28: mpino1109: finished '100-10'. 14:59:28: mpino1109: started '100-20'. 14:59:32: mpino1109: finished '100-20'. 14:59:33: mpino1109: started '150-10'. 14:59:38: mpino1109: finished '150-10'. 14:59:38: mpino1109: started '150-20'. 14:59:42: mpino1109: finished '150-20'. Stop date: Thu Nov 7 14:59:43 CET 2002