Re: [HTCondor-users] Batch admin & running job classAd modifications

[Greg Thain <gthain@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 08/29/2018 11:17 AM, Petr Vokac wrote:
> Hi,
>
> is there a simple way for batch administrator to modify classAd
> attributes of running job? condor_qedit works only for jobs that are not
> in running state, condor_chirp is able to do modifications from running
> job so there must be an interface for running job classAd modification -
> I would like to know if there is a way for administrator to modify
> _running_ job classAd in a way that is similar to condor_qedit.

I suspect there are a couple of questions here. condor_qedit can 
certainly edit the schedd's copy of a running job, but those changes 
don't get propagated to the execute side, so the changes may not have 
the impact you require. For example, changing the requirements 
expression doesn't do anything for a running job, but may impact where 
that job can be matched to if it gets evicted and rematched.

-greg