[gridengine users] SIGKILL as last resort terminate_method

[Reuti]

Hi,

Am 31.01.2012 um 09:09 schrieb Anton Löfgren:

> I've been working on a terminate_method script to do nice takedown of jobs for a queue.

You want to drain the queue, or only terminate them in a special way? The terminate method is run under the user account, and hence he can kill his own job.


> However, I now want to send SIGKILL to the job PID if none of my attempts at gracefully terminating the job have succeeded. Much like the default setting for terminate_method.
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> What I can't figure out is how I would go about to allow the "Grid Engine user"

You mean the admin user(s) of SGE? Some create a special account like "sgeadmin" and group "gridware".

-- Reuti


> (what do you call this kind of user, anyway?) send signals to my jobs. To clarify, I'm the owner of the job but this GE user is executing the script defined in terminate_method.
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> I'm on Sun Grid Engine 6.2.
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> Any hints or insight on how this works by default would be much appreciated.
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> Regards,
> Anton
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