You could also use a simple epilog script to save the output of ‘scontrol show job’ to a file/database.
M -- Merlin Hartley Computer Officer MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Cambridge, CB2 0XY United Kingdom > On 15 Oct 2017, at 20:49, Ryan Richholt <ryanrichh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Is there any way to get the job command with sacct? > > For example, if I submit a job like this: > > $ sbatch testArgs.sh hey there > > I can get the full command from "scontrol show job": > > ... > Command=/home/rrichholt/scripts/testArgs.sh hey there > ... > > But, that information is not available long-term with sacct. > > To explain why I would like this: > > I'm dealing with a workflow that submits lots of jobs for different projects. > Each submits the same script, but the first argument points to a different > project directory. When jobs fail, it's very hard to tell which project they > were working on, because "scontrol show job" only lasts for 300 seconds. > Sometimes they fail at night and I don't know until the next morning.
