Re: [Condor-users] Keeping jobs from being retried

[Matthew Farrellee <matt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/29/2012 10:15 AM, Sarah Williams wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> In condor I see sometimes that, if a node has a problem and can't
> complete a job, the system will re-queue it and retry it on another
> node.  However many of the jobs we get don't support that, and the jobs
> fail anyway in addition to confusing upstream monitoring.  Is there a
> way to tell condor to never retry a job?
>
> --Sarah

Condor will keep track of how many times your job has been started in 
the job's NumJobStarts attribute.

If you only want a job to start once you can add the following to your 
submit file -

  requirements = NumJobStarts == 0

Best,


matt