Re: [HTCondor-users] transfer plugin exit codes

[Thomas Hartmann <thomas.hartmann@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Mat,

that sounds good :D

Something like that is what we envisage - where the jobs get released 
occasionally and put back on hold until all their files have been staged 
from tape for good.

Cheers and thanks,
  Thomas

On 15/11/2022 16.12, MÃtyÃs Selmeci via HTCondor-users wrote:
> Not strict at all -- OSG uses 11 in one of our plugins to indicate a 
> "retryable" failure. Any nonzero exit code results in a hold with the 
> HoldReasonSubCode being the exit code left shifted by 8 (so multiplied 
> by 256). We have a PeriodicRelease that retries the job after a random 
> delay in case it was one of these failures.
>
> -Mat
>
> On 11/15/2022 8:25 AM, Thomas Hartmann wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > quick question on transfer plugins - how strict is the constraint on
> > exit codes 0,1,2? According to
> > https://htcondor.readthedocs.io/en/latest/admin-manual/setting-up-special-environments.html#enabling-the-transfer-of-files-specified-by-a-url
> > these three exit codes are the (only?) expected ones by Condor.
> >
> > Potentially, I would like to distinguish between a few fail reasons,
> > e.g., if a file is not present vs a file only nearline. So that one
> > could send a job back into hold and maybe release it later on if a file
> > was nearline but not release it, if not found in the namespace. I.e.,
> > evaluating `HoldReasonSubCode` occasionally.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > ÂÂÂ Thomas
> >
> >
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