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:

1. 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 though cron) must be run through a tool account, and not your personally account.

2. 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 use cron 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.