Re: [Condor-users] Interactive jobs

[Jaime Frey <jfrey@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Feb 24, 2006, at 3:53 PM, John Li wrote:

> I'm new to Condor and I have 6.6.10 installed for some Linux and  
> Solaris
> machines.
>
> I'm trying to start an interactive session by the xterm command.
> My submit file looks like this,
>
> universe       = vanilla
> executable     = /usr/openwin/bin/xterm
> arguments      = -display hostname.mindspeed.com:0

I presume there's a 'queue' line at the bottom of your submit file.

> Here is what happens after I use the command condor_submit to submit
> this job,
>
> I see several xterm sessions show up on my workstation and they then
> disappears on their own after a few seconds.
>
> Are there additional entries that I may need in the submit file for  
> this
> type
> of interactive job?   What log files should I be looking for to search
> for clues?

Check to see if the machines are switching to Owner state. If your  
START expression includes KeyboardIdle, then your xterm jobs will  
cause the machine to think the owner has returned to the machine and  
all jobs should be kicked off.

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