Re: [Condor-users] Condor as virtual cron job scheduler

[Rich Pieri <ratinox@xxxxxxx>]

On May 21, 2011, at 3:59 AM, <phiroc@xxxxxxx> <phiroc@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> down? For instance, "if the scheduler server is up, run the database jobs it assigns to you whenever it tells you to run them, otherwise, run them on your own every four hours".


This looks far, far more complicated than it needs to be.  Use one or the other, either Condor or local scheduling (cron).  If you try to do both without fulling understanding how both work and how they can step on each others' toes with your jobs then you're going to get corrupted output.

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Rich Pieri <ratinox@xxxxxxx>
MIT Laboratory for Nuclear Science
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