condor_vacate_job
vacate jobs in the HTCondor queue from the hosts where they are running
Synopsis
condor_vacate_job [-help | -version ]
condor_vacate_job [ -pool centralmanagerhostname[:portnumber] | -name scheddname ] | [-addr “<a.b.c.d:port>”] [-fast ] cluster… | cluster.process… | user… | -constraint expression …
condor_vacate_job [ -pool centralmanagerhostname[:portnumber] | -name scheddname ] | [-addr “<a.b.c.d:port>”] [-fast ] -all
Description
condor_vacate_job finds one or more jobs from the HTCondor job queue and vacates them from the host(s) where they are currently running. The jobs remain in the job queue and return to the idle state.
A running job running will be sent a soft
kill signal (SIGTERM by default, or whatever is defined as the
SoftKillSig
in the job ClassAd), and HTCondor will restart the job
from the beginning somewhere else.
If the -fast option is used, the job(s) will be immediately killed.
If the -name option is specified, the named condor_schedd is
targeted for processing. If the -addr option is used, the
condor_schedd at the given address is targeted for processing.
Otherwise, the local condor_schedd is targeted. The jobs to be
vacated are identified by one or more job identifiers, as described
below. For any given job, only the owner of the job or one of the queue
super users (defined by the QUEUE_SUPER_USERS
macro) can vacate the
job.
Using condor_vacate_job on jobs which are not currently running has no effect.
Options
- -help
Display usage information
- -version
Display version information
- -pool centralmanagerhostname[:portnumber]
Specify a pool by giving the central manager’s host name and an optional port number
- -name scheddname
Send the command to a machine identified by scheddname
- -addr “<a.b.c.d:port>”
Send the command to a machine located at “<a.b.c.d:port>”
- cluster
Vacate all jobs in the specified cluster
- cluster.process
Vacate the specific job in the cluster
- user
Vacate jobs belonging to specified user
- -constraint expression
Vacate all jobs which match the job ClassAd expression constraint
- -all
Vacate all the jobs in the queue
- -fast
Perform a fast vacate and hard kill the jobs
General Remarks
Do not confuse condor_vacate_job with condor_vacate. condor_vacate is given a list of hosts to vacate, regardless of what jobs happen to be running on them. Only machine owners and administrators have permission to use condor_vacate to evict jobs from a given host. condor_vacate_job is given a list of job to vacate, regardless of which hosts they happen to be running on. Only the owner of the jobs or queue super users have permission to use condor_vacate_job.
Examples
To vacate job 23.0:
$ condor_vacate_job 23.0
To vacate all jobs of a user named Mary:
$ condor_vacate_job mary
To vacate all vanilla universe jobs owned by Mary:
$ condor_vacate_job -constraint 'JobUniverse == 5 && Owner == "mary"'
Note that the entire constraint, including the quotation marks, must be enclosed in single quote marks for most shells.
Exit Status
condor_vacate_job will exit with a status value of 0 (zero) upon success, and it will exit with the value 1 (one) upon failure.