Re: [Condor-users] Using condor to update condor

[Erik Paulson <epaulson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 05:55:00PM +0100, Matt Hope wrote:
> On 6/24/05, Matt Hope <matthew.hope@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 6/24/05, Ian Chesal <ICHESAL@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > One means of ensuring that the machine eventually becomes free for
> > upgrade is to reconfig the START expression. for schedd's I can't
> > think of a simple (start no more shadows" but don't kill running ones"
> > expression of the top of my head but steadily reducing the max jobs
> > running to the number of active shadows would do the trick (if
> > cumbersomely)
> 
> /me slaps myself
> 
> condor_hold -constraint "JobStatus!=2"
> 
> It's not a config change though so requires an invocation on the
> machine or from another machine with owner trust
> 

And you have to be the owner of the job, or listed in the QUEUE_SUPER_USERS
setting.

That won't stop any new jobs from being submitted and then matched and
started. 

-Erik