Re: [Condor-users] Shutting down condor_schedd temporarily without losing the running jobs

["Ian Chesal" <ICHESAL@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> > I'm going to try editing the job_queue.log file by hand to 
> > remove the offending non-UTF-8 character that's causing my 
> > Quill daemon so much trouble. The problem is: I can't think 
> > of a way to stop the schedd without interrupting the running 
> > jobs. It'll take me less than a minute to do the edits. It's 
> > all of a few lines. But I don't want the schedd writing to 
> > the file while I'm writing to the file.
> > 
> > Ideas for ways I might be able to do this without losing my 
> > running jobs?
> 
> Well, whether this was the wisest course of action or not 
> remains to be seen but so far, so good. I just suspended the 
> condor_schedd process with:
> 
> ps -ef | grep schedd | grep condor | awk {'print $2'} | xargs 
> kill -STOP
> 
> Did the edits and then unsuspended it with:
> 
> ps -ef | grep schedd | grep condor | awk {'print $2'} | xargs 
> kill -CONT
> 
> It certainly suspended the process. Whether my running jobs 
> stay running is playing out now. Looks okay though.

Running jobs stayed running.
Edit to job_queue.log fixed my Quill problem.
Quill database is back in sync.

I am a happy guy.

Now if someone could do something about all this snow it'd be a very
nice day indeed...

- Ian


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