Re: [Condor-users] Special "admin" jobs

[Felix Wolfheimer <f.wolfheimer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for your answer! Unfortunately, the update packages can become
quite large such that I don't want to send them with each job.
Additionally, I don't want to have the situation that each user is
allowed to mess around with the update system of the application. I
would like to configure it in a way that only a subset of the users is
allowed to run an "update job" and the other users submit their jobs and
just use the software "as is". As the update sometimes is quite urgent
(e.g. if critical bugs occur) I would like to have the option that the
admins have the possibility to submit an "urgent" update job such that
Condor kills any running job on the machine and runs the update
immediately.

Thanks anyway for your suggestion.


Am Samstag, den 16.04.2011, 14:00 -0400 schrieb Robert Sandilands:
> What I do is that I have a script that launches applications like that. 
> The first thing the script does is to update the application and then 
> run it.
> 
> It works for me. There probably are better ways to do it. I am not an 
> expert by any measure.
> 
> Robert
> 
> On 4/16/11 10:14 AM, Felix Wolfheimer wrote:
> > Dear Condor Experts,
> >
> > I'm currently dealing with the following task: We have a pool of
> > machines under control of Condor. All Condor Jobs are jobs using a
> > certain software package on the pool machines. For this software package
> > we get updates about once a week and I would like to have the
> > possibility to submit an "update job" to Condor (the update job runs the
> > update process of the software package) such that a currently running
> > user job is aborted for the update and then restarts after the update
> > has finished. Thus, I would like to tell Condor:
> >
> > "If there is an update job for machine X found in the queue submitted by
> > a certain user then abort the currently running job on machine X and run
> > the update job."
> >
> > I think it should be possible using the KILL variable in the startd
> > configuration of the machines but I have no idea how I can translate the
> > condition "if there is an update job submitted by the an "admin" user"
> > into a condition which Condor can understand.
> >
> > Thanks for your help!
> >
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