Re: [HTCondor-users] getting logs before completion

[Todd Tannenbaum <tannenba@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/8/2014 12:48 PM, Roshan Chaudhari wrote:
> Hi,
>       Right now we get the log of the job when it completes, is it possible
> to get the intermediate log while the job is running??
>
> Thanks,
> Roshan

So by the above, do you mean your vanilla universe job is creating a 
file as it runs, you are asking HTCondor to transfer files back upon 
completion of the job, and you want to peek at the contents of that file 
before your job completes?

If so, the answer is yes, you could use condor_tail.  See
  http://research.cs.wisc.edu/htcondor/manual/current/condor_tail.html

Alternatively, if the file in question you want to see while the job is 
running happens to be either stdout or stderr, you could put
  stream_output = true
or
  stream_error = true
in your job submit file.  See the condor_submit man page for details.


Hope the above helps,
Todd