Re: [Condor-users] Disabling the restarting of jobs

[Dan Bradley <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jaime Frey wrote:

> You can also prevent the jobs from rerunning if accidentally released  
> like so:
> requirements = NumJobStarts  =?= 0 || NumJobStarts =?= Undefined
> periodic_hold = NumJobStarts > 0 && JobStatus == 1
>
>  
This is better than my answer, which was simply periodic_hold = 
NumJobStarts>0.  Just to be clear, this policy prevents the job from 
restarting in cases where the job was started and then returns to the 
idle state (JobStatus == 1).  This can happen, for example, if Condor 
encounters some problem when trying to run the job, such as the 
condor_startd or condor_starter getting killed, or some communication 
failure between the submit and execute node.  For preemptable jobs, this 
can also happen if Condor evicts the job from the machine.

Jaime's other suggestion (below) applies if the job runs to completion 
(or is killed by something external to Condor).  In this case, Condor's 
normal behavior is to have the job leave the job queue, so you shouldn't 
normally have to do anything special to prevent it from rerunning.

> Adding this to your submit file will put the job on hold if it doesn't  
> exit with status 0:
> on_exit_hold = ExitCode =!= 0


--Dan