2.3.2. Job managements

2.3.2.1. Monitor your jobs

In HTCondor, you can use

condor_q

to see the status of your job.

You can also watch them, like so

watch -n 15 condor_q

where 15 is the number of seconds you want the command to be repeated, i.e. you are monitoring the status once every 15s.

There is also a command from HTCondor which do the watching automatically:

condor_watch_q

Both approach has their pros and cons and you are welcome to try which one suits your purpose better.

2.3.2.2. Killing your jobs

After you submitted a job, you obtained a job id. You can also retrieve this job id from the condor_q command above. You can kill this job by using,

condor_rm $ID
# such as...
condor_rm 1983

Or you can also kill all jobs that is still in the queue created by you:

condor_rm $USER

Warning

This is destructive! All your submitted jobs will disappear and there’s no way to bring them back except by resubmitting all of them again.