Re: [Condor-users] kill or pause a condor job as normal user

[Matthew Farrellee <matt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 08/15/2011 11:26 PM, Vogelsang, Andreas wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I've got an problem. We are running a condor grid with round about 2500 nodes. A user got the problem that his PC is one of the nodes. He says that he was trying to work but can't because a condor job use almost the entire memory. Now he asked if a user (which does not work with condor) is able to kill or pause the job. He is not the person which send the job to the cluster.
> Normally the jobs switch to "held" status when someone is using the pc.
>
> The user is not allowed to kill any processes.
>
> I am grateful for any ideas

He should be able to use condor_vacate from his PC.

Best,


matt