Re: [HTCondor-users] signals when a job is killed

["Krieger, Donald N." <kriegerd@xxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, Ben.
That's just what I needed.

Best Regards,
Â
Don

> -----Original Message-----
> From: HTCondor-users [mailto:htcondor-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Ben Cotton
> Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2015 9:46 AM
> To: HTCondor-Users Mail List
> Subject: Re: [HTCondor-users] signals when a job is killed
> 
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 7:10 AM, Krieger, Donald N. <kriegerd@xxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> 
> > Is  there a signal sent?
> > If so, is it sent to the mother process of my job and which signal is used?
> >
> By default, SIGTERM is used (except in the standard universe, where SIGSTP is
> the default).
> 
> > Is there a way to control which signal is used â it would be simplest to catch
> SIGINT, signal 2.
> >
> Yes, the kill_sig command in your submit file can specify the
> (integer) signal used when a job is getting the boot.
> See: http://research.cs.wisc.edu/htcondor/manual/v8.2/condor_submit.html
> 
> > And finally, is the function which returns results of the jobs disabled when a
> job is killed?
> >
> The answer to this is fuzzier. By default, jobs will get some time to clean up
> after themselves (I believe this is 30 seconds), but that's configurable by site
> administrators, so it may be longer or shorter than the default. You'll want to
> specify the following in your submit file, though:
> when_to_transfer_output = ON_EXIT_OR_EVICT
> 
> From the manual:
> The ON_EXIT_OR_EVICT option is intended for fault tolerant jobs which
> periodically save their own state and can restart where they left off.
> In this case, files are spooled to the submit machine any time the job leaves a
> remote site, either because it exited on its own, or was evicted by the
> HTCondor system for any reason prior to job completion.
> The files spooled back are placed in a directory defined by the value of the
> SPOOL configuration variable. Any output files transferred back to the submit
> machine are automatically sent back out again as input files if the job restarts.
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> BC
> 
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