From ivm@hppc Mon Mar 8 18:34:36 1999 Date: Wed, 02 Dec 1998 16:20:32 -0600 From: Igor Mandrichenko To: Antonio Wong Chan , run2farms@fnal.gov Subject: Re: More questions on FBS On Dec 2, 12:46pm, Antonio Wong Chan wrote: > Subject: More questions on FBS > Hi Igor, Dec. 2, 1998 > > I think I managed to run the CDF Production Executable > successfully with FBS. I need some help with a few questions > so I can make further progress in using FBS, though. If > these questions are answered on a manual or a Web page, > please point it out to me for future reference. > > 1) The response to the command "farms hosts -l fnpcc.fnal.gov" > is as follows: > > -------------------------------------------------------- > HOST: fnpcc.fnal.gov TYPE: io_cdf > STATUS: down REASON: host marked broken by > load average: ?, ?, ? > JOBS: - > -------------------------------------------------------- > > I couldn't queue FBS jobs over there, so I have been > queueing jobs on Worker_CDF for now. When will fnpcc > be up again for FBS queues? > Hi Antonio. Thanks for pointing this out. I restarted one of our daemons there, fnpcc should be ok now. > 2) The DEPEND option in JDF has 4 different conditions > (started, done, exit and ended). It's not clear to me > what the distinction between "done" and "exit" are. > If "done" means "specified section finished successfully" > (according to the FBS User's Guide), does "exit" mean > simply finished (successfully or not)? As far as I know, "done" means "all processes exited succsessfully, with exit code = 0", I am not sure about "exit", it's either "finished with an error" or just "finished". You can get more information on those conditions from LSF User's Guide. > > 3) I got the following from my FBS job output. Near the > bottom, it says EXIT CODE = 0. Can I use this EXIT CODE > as an indicator of whether the submitted job ended > successfully or not? > Yes, 0 means that all your processes (you had only 1 in this case) finished successfully. Your questions, comments, concerns are always welcome. Igor -- Igor Mandrichenko Computing Division Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory E-mail: ivm@fnal.gov