Re: [HTCondor-users] condor: Error parsing classad or job not found

["Simpson, Adam B." <simpsonab@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi,
    Just wanted to say that editing /usr/libexec/condor/glite/pbs_status.sh did the trick.

Thanks for the help,
Adam

On Feb 13, 2015, at 4:07 PM, Brian Bockelman <bbockelm@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Slightly more maintainable - you should be able to edit blahpd.conf and (or BLAH.conf, or whatever they call it these days ;) and point at a custom qstat wrapper.
> 
> Again, not ideal.  Maybe we should brainstorm how to pass this config info back and forth between HTCondor and the blahp?
> 
> Derek - why doesn't blahp spit out better debugging information?  Shouldn't it be recording the stdout/err?
> 
> Adam - what does qstat do if this argument is not given?
> 
> Brian
> 
>> On Feb 13, 2015, at 2:42 PM, Derek Weitzel <dweitzel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Adam,
>> 
>> 
>>> On Feb 13, 2015, at 2:26 PM, Simpson, Adam B. <simpsonab@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> 
>>> One thing that may be important is that "qstat" alone does not work on this host, a special argument is required that essentially specifies the queue for qstat to use.
>> 
>> Yes, this special argument will certainly make the condor <-> PBS interaction not work.  The only way I know of fixing this is to manually edit the script that queries pbs to add the correct argument.
>> 
>> The location of the correct file will depend on how you installed Condor.  It will either be  /usr/libexec/condor/glite/pbs_status.sh or /usr/libexec/blahp/pbs_status.sh.
>> 
>> Search the file for "qstat", there should be a line similar to:
>> result=`${pbs_binpath}/qstat -f $reqjob 2>$staterr`
>> 
>> There, you can add the "special argument" that is required to qstat correctly.  Feel free to run the command:
>> $ qstat <special_argument> -f <jobid> 
>> to make sure it works.
>> 
>> I know this is not an ideal situation, but this is the first time I've seen the need for a special argument to qstat to view the status of a job.
>> 
>> 
>> -Derek
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