[HTCondor-users] delaying job starts on execute node boot up

[Andrew Pickford <andrewp@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

I'd like some advise on the best way to automatically stop an execute 
node from running jobs for say 5 minutes after the machine has booted 
up. And then once those 5 minutes have passed for the machine to start 
accepting jobs. The use case for this is I've drained machines and 
rebooted them for various reasons intending to do more work on them 
after the reboot but on occasion forgotten to put a START = FALSE into 
the nodes config and only realising after rebooting the machine. I could 
use DaemonStartTime to wait 5 minutes after the condor daemon has 
started to accept jobs but I'd really rather the wait happen only after 
a reboot not on a daemon restart. Is there a system uptime value I've 
missed or any other ideas?


Thanks,

Andrew