Re: [Condor-users] Dagman and PeriodicRemove

["R. Kent Wenger" <wenger@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 3 Jun 2010, Peter Doherty wrote:

> I have a Condor DAG, and I have a PeriodicRemove statement in my classad that 
> times out jobs after 30 minutes.
> I have Retry = 1 in my *.dag file to retry jobs that fail, either with a 
> non-zero exit code, or that fail the POST script.
>
> But if the job is removed by the PeriodicRemove statement, I don't want to 
> run the POST script, and I don't want the job retried.  I just want it 
> removed, and nothing more done with it.
>
> Can I make condor do this?

There's no way to avoid running the POST script.  However, if the POST 
script can recognize that the job was removed by the PeriodicRemove 
expression, you can avoid retrying the node.  You can do this by having
the POST script return a "special" exit code in that case, and using the
UNLESS-EXIT option in your retry statements:

  RETRY JobName NumberOfRetries UNLESS-EXIT value

Kent Wenger
Condor Team