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SGE_SHEPHERD(8) | Grid Engine Administrative Commands | SGE_SHEPHERD(8) |
NAME¶
sge_shepherd - Grid Engine single job-controlling agentSYNOPSIS¶
sge_shepherdDESCRIPTION¶
sge_shepherd provides the parent process functionality for a single Grid Engine job. The parent functionality is necessary on UNIX systems to retrieve resource usage information (see after a job has finished. In addition, the sge_shepherd forwards signals to the job, such for suspension, enabling, termination, and the Grid Engine checkpointing signal (see and for details). The sge_shepherd receives information about the job to be started from the During the execution of the job it actually starts up to 5 child processes. First a prolog script is run if this feature is enabled by the prolog parameter in the cluster configuration. (See Next a parallel environment startup procedure is run if the job is a parallel job. (See for more information.) After that, the job itself is run, followed by a parallel environment shutdown procedure for parallel jobs, and finally an epilog script if requested by the epilog parameter in the cluster configuration. The prolog and epilog scripts, as well as the parallel environment startup and shutdown procedures, are to be provided by the Grid Engine administrator and are intended for site-specific actions to be taken before and after execution of the actual user job. After the job has finished and the epilog script is processed, sge_shepherd retrieves resource usage statistics about the job, places them in a job-specific subdirectory of the spool directory for reporting through and finishes. sge_shepherd also places an exit status file in the spool directory. This exit status can be viewed with qacct -j JobId (see it is not the exit status of sge_shepherd itself but of one of the methods executed by sge_shepherd. This exit status can have several meanings, depending on the method in which an error occurred (if any). The possible methods are: prolog, parallel start, job, parallel stop, epilog, suspend, restart, terminate, clean, migrate, and checkpoint. The following exit values are returned:- 0
- All methods: Operation was executed successfully.
- 99
- Job script, prolog and epilog: When FORBID_RESCHEDULE is not set in the configuration (see the job gets re-queued. Otherwise see "Other".
- 100
- Job script, prolog and epilog: When FORBID_APPERROR is not set in the configuration (see the job gets re-queued. Otherwise see "Other".
- Other
- Job script: This is the exit status of the job itself. No action is taken
upon this exit status because the meaning of this exit status is not
known.
RESTRICTIONS¶
sge_shepherd should not be invoked manually, but only byENVIRONMENT VARIABLES¶
- SGE_ROOT
- Specifies the location of the Grid Engine standard configuration files.
- SGE_CELL
- If set, specifies the default Grid Engine cell. To address a Grid Engine cell sge_execd uses (in the order of precedence):
The name of the cell specified in the environment
variable SGE_CELL, if it is set.
The name of the default cell, i.e. default.
- SGE_ENABLE_COREDUMP
- If set, enable core dumps on Linux when the admin_user is not root. Linux
normally disables core dumps when the daemon has changed uid or gid.
Setting SGE_ENABLE_COREDUMP in sge_execd's environment defeats that to
enable core dumps for debugging if they are otherwise allowed. This is
typically not a big hazard with SGE, since most information is exposed in
the spool area anyhow. Dumps will appear in the qmaster spool directory,
which need not be world-readable.
- SGE_CGROUP_DIR
- If Linux cgroups handling is enabled, this variable names a directory under the cgroup mount point in which to create job-specific directories. The default is sge.SGE_CELL so, for instance, the cpuset cgroup for a job might be /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset/sge.default/123.
FILES¶
sgepasswd contains a list of user names and their corresponding encrypted passwords. If available, the password file will be used by sge_shepherd. To change the contents of this file please use the sgepasswd command. It is not advised to change that file manually.<execd_spool>/job_dir/<job_id> job specific directory <sge_root>/<cell>/common/sgepasswd Password information used on Microsoft Windows hosts. See
SEE ALSO¶
COPYRIGHT¶
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