To setup a basic single-node localhost-only batch system, install the torque-server, torque-mom, and torque-scheduler packages, and do something like this: /sbin/chkconfig pbs_mom on /sbin/chkconfig pbs_server on /sbin/chkconfig pbs_sched on /bin/hostname --long > %{torquehomedir}/server_priv/nodes /bin/hostname --long > %{torquehomedir}/server_name service pbs_server start qmgr -c "s s scheduling=true" qmgr -c "c q batch queue_type=execution" qmgr -c "s q batch started=true" qmgr -c "s q batch enabled=true" qmgr -c "s q batch resources_default.nodes=1" qmgr -c "s q batch resources_default.walltime=3600" qmgr -c "s s default_queue=batch" service pbs_mom restart service pbs_sched restart