[gridengine users] $SGE_ROOT/$SGE_CELL/common/sge_qstat

[Kevin Buckley]

Whoops,

forgot to copy the list in

On 19 June 2012 10:08, Joseph Farran <jfarran at uci.edu> wrote:
> After making this the system wide default, how can an individual users
> change it back to just show their jobs?
>
> In one account, I created:
>
> $ cat ~/.sge_qstat
> -u $USER
>
> Trying to switch it back to only listing this one user qstat jobs, but I
> still get the system wide listing of everyone.

The user file seems to add to the existing command line, ie including the
stuff from the system-wide definitions.

If you trace, eg do an strace of, the qstat invocation with both defiinitions
active, you'll see that both the -u * and -u $USER are being processed.

I think you may be approaching this in a slightly suboptimal way though,
involving two changes, the system-wide define and the user-education
define, when one "change" would suffice.

Why set a system-wide default that you think may want to be overridden
and so requires you to ALSO have to tell your users about the ~/.sge_qstat
methodology?

If you are going to have to tell them about  ~/.sge_qstat anyway, why not tell
them how to  add the "-u *" to their own file (or equivalent to their command
line qstat) so that they get to choose not to have the Grid Engine default in
favour of  "-u *" listing.

Other system-level canges would be to give each user a ~./sge_qstat
or create a shell alias, say qstat_all, to hold the the default args you
want - either way allows the user to customise things for themselves.

Just my thre'pen'th though.
Kevin
ECS, VUW, NZ