Re: [Condor-users] set the state of a job to completed

[Jaime Frey <jfrey@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Aug 12, 2005, at 11:09 AM, Horvatth Szabolcs wrote:

> > It sounds like what you really want is to modify the DAG as it
> > executes (to remove these queued nodes). DAGMan doesn't support this.
>
> Sort of, since I'd also like to have dagman submit all child tasks  
> of the completed job.
>
> My problem is general is the following:
> - Task A generates a lot of data and some of it is used by taskB  
> that is a DAG child of task A.
> - Task A sometimes does not exit properly, although the computation  
> is done.
> - If I restart task A by holding and releasing it it does the same,  
> long computation again
> (and it has the chance that is again does not terminate properly)
> - I can't submit the child jobs of task A without having it completed.

You could wrap the job in a script the kills the program if it runs  
for too long and otherwise parrots back the program's exit code.

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