Re: [Condor-users] gracefully remove nodes from pool

[Erik Paulson <epaulson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 03:29:33PM -0700, Jimmy M. Ferng wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Ian Chesal wrote:
> 
> > Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 12:04:03 -0700
> > From: Ian Chesal <ICHESAL@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reply-To: Condor-Users Mail List <condor-users@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: Condor-Users Mail List <condor-users@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: RE: [Condor-users] gracefully remove nodes from pool
> >
> > You want to use condor_off with the -peaceful flag which tells it to
> > wait indefinitly for running jobs to finish before turning off condor on
> > the machines. Like this:
> >
> > condor_off -peaceful <machine1> [<machine2>...]
> >
> 
> I was trying to do exactly the same thing as Andrew has asked about. I
> tried:
> 
> condor_off -graceful -name <machine1> [<machine2>...]
> 
> It did remove schedd and startd on the remote machines. However, when
> condor_startd was removed, the running job was also removed immediately.
> (I am running Condor 6.6.5) I was hoping that I could keep the job
> running until finished but not to take any more new jobs. Any advice?
> 

condor_off -peaceful is new in 6.7.1 (note that -graceful and -peaceful 
do different things)

-Erik