Re: [Condor-users] feature request - vacate disabling by job

[Dan Bradley <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

matthew hope wrote:

> It strikes me that a job is better placed to indicate it's ability to
> deal with a vacation event.
>
> a submit parameter such as
>
> JobWantVacate= true / false
>
> could allow condor to short circuit KILL to true immediately (or
> better still never send the wm_close / vacate signal and kill the job
> immediately)
>  

I agree that it would be nice to have standardized job ClassAd 
attributes to express the job's wishes under various circumstances.  
However, you can insert your own job ClassAd attributes and reference 
these in the startd policy expressions, so you don't have to wait around 
for a standard set of attributes to be defined.

To insert an attribute into the job's ClassAd, simply put a "+" in front 
of it in the submit file:

+JobWantVacate = False

Then you can evaluate this attribute (as an arbitrary expression) in the 
startd policy:

WANT_VACATE = (JobWantVacate =!= False) && (...)

--Dan