Re: [Condor-users] Way to check for termination of jobs.

[Jaime Frey <jfrey@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mar 2, 2006, at 12:17 AM, Sameer Bahl wrote:

> I am currently submitting jobs to a windows based condor pool in a  
> c language program. I  want the function submitting the jobs in the  
> program to return only when the jobs have finshed executing. I  
> havent been able to do so. At the moment the function returns as  
> soon as the jobs have been submitted to the pool. Is there a way to  
> check if the jobs submitted by a particular user have finished  
> executing so that i can make the function to wait until then.

Here are a few ways your function can determine the job's status:

* Call condor_q periodically.

* Set 'log' in the submit file and read the resulting user log.

* Use condor_run.

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