Re: [Condor-users] set the state of a job to completed

[Jaime Frey <jfrey@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Aug 16, 2005, at 11:55 AM, Horvatth Szabolcs wrote:

> > You could wrap the job in a script the kills the program if it runs
> > for too long and otherwise parrots back the program's exit code.
>
> I'd like to make it a manual control, to let the user decide  
> whether the job did
> complete or not. The run time can vary from 1-200 minutes, so it is  
> not that trivial
> to kill the task automatically.

If people know at submit time what the run time should be, the time  
could be set then. Changing it once the job starts running is more  
problematic.

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