Re: [HTCondor-users] editing offline class ads

[Todd L Miller <tlmiller@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> My current plan of attack is to add a boolean to the node's START 
> expression that stops it from taking jobs. I have a script that triggers 
> the change of this boolean to FALSE and also removes jobs from the node. 
> With the START expression evaluating to false the node stays idle and 
> hibernates.

	It seems like it might be easier to add the boolean to the 
HIBERNATE expression and let HTCondor do the rest of the work, but I have 
to admit I don't know if the hibernation mechanism can cause the machine 
to stop accepting jobs.

> Is there a way to edit the Offline Ad? I tried editing the file with the 
> persistent offline ads in, but the change didn't take effect ie the ad 
> in the persistent file showed "Start = True" but a condor_status showed 
> "Start = false".

	Stupid question, but did you try using condor_advertise?  You 
should be pretty much able to do a condor_status -l, change the START 
expression, and then feed the result back into condor_advertise.

- Todd Miller