Re: [HTCondor-users] peaceful node drain and shutdown

[Michael V Pelletier <Michael.V.Pelletier@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: "Fox, Kevin M" <Kevin.Fox@xxxxxxxx>
Date: 07/13/2016 12:19 PM
> 
> I'm trying to setup condor such that you can peacefully shutdown a
startd 
> from the node running it without killing existing jobs but without
> allowing user jobs running on the node from doing so, or allowing
one node
> from shutting down another. Anyone know a good way to do that?

The "condor_off -peaceful" command is what
you're looking for, I think.

A more labor-intensive alternative is to reconfigure
the START _expression_
for the node to be false so that no new jobs will
be accepted, and then just
wait for the jobs to finish off.

        -Michael Pelletier.
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