Hi Daan, Daan van Rossum <d.r.vanros...@gmx.de> writes:
> Dear slurm-users, > > My users complain about not being able to cancel array jobs (on slurm > 17.11.3). > > The problem is that squeue by default outputs the %i (job step id) for array > jobs, which cannot be used in scancel. What /can/ be used is %A (job id). > How can I tell users to easily find that number? There is certainly a better > way to obtain the jobid than by translating between %i and %A using: > > # squeue -o '%i %A' | grep $jobstepid > > Is there a way to customize the default squeue output format? > > Thanks, Daan > > From the man page: > %i Job or job step id. In the case of job arrays, the > job ID format will be of the form > "<base_job_id>_<index>". > > %A Job id. This will have a unique value for each ele‐ > ment of job arrays. (Valid for jobs only) You could always just use overwrite squeue with alias which you put it in /etc/profile.d or where ever you have your global setting, although this could also potentially cause some confusion. Cheers, Loris -- Dr. Loris Bennett (Mr.) ZEDAT, Freie Universität Berlin Email loris.benn...@fu-berlin.de
