Workaround Re: [torqueusers] Non-cummulative pbsnodes -o command

[James J Coyle]

John,

   I don't get this behavior (version 2.1.2), but it world be quite annoying
if I did.

   If you'd like a fairly easy workaround, put the following script
in a file ahead of /usr/local/bin in your PATH and name it pbsnodes,
E.g. call it /local/bin/pbsnodes
the issue chmod u+x /local/bin/pbsnodes
and then (if your in the csh or tcsh)
setenv PATH /local/bin:${PATH}
rehash  

Now pbsnodes -o
should work as you want it to, as pbsnodes with no -o
passes unchanged to /usr/local/bin/pbsnodes

An easy mod makes this work with -d 
once that becomes available.



#!/bin/ksh

PBSDIR=/usr/local/bin

OFLAG_PRESENT=`echo $* | grep '\-o'` 
if [ -n "${OFLAG_PRESENT}" ] ; then
  ALREADY_OFFLINE="`${PBSDIR}/pbsnodes -l | awk '/offline/ {print $1}'`"
  ${PBSDIR}/pbsnodes $* ${ALREADY_OFFLINE}
else
  ${PBSDIR}/pbsnodes $*
fi




-- 
 James Coyle, PhD
 SGI Origin, Alpha, Xeon and Opteron Cluster Manager
 High Performance Computing Group     
 235 Durham Center            
 Iowa State Univ.           phone: (515)-294-2099
 Ames, Iowa 50011           web: http://jjc.public.iastate.edu


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> "It is important that all the nodes known to be down are given as arguments
> on the command line.   This is because nodes which are not listed are
> assumed to be UP and will be indicated as such if they were previously
> marked DOWN."
> 
> marking a node as down is different than marking a node as offline.  Are you
> sure you see the problem with -o and you aren't using -d to mark them down?
> 
> current versions of torque do not allow you to mark nodes down with the -d
> command
> 
> 
> I have been using torque for a long time (well before the versions you are
> using) and pbsnodes -o has always worked as expected for me.
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> <br><font face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 12px;">"It
> is important that all the nodes known to be down are given as arguments
> on the command line. &nbsp;&nbsp;This is because nodes which are not listed are
> assumed to be UP and will be indicated as such if they were previously
> marked DOWN."<br><br>marking a node as down is different than marking a node as offline.&nbsp; Are you sure you see the problem with -o and you aren&#39;t using -d to mark them down?<br><br>current versions of torque do not allow you to mark nodes down with the -d command<br>
> <br><br>I have been using torque for a long time (well before the versions you are using) and pbsnodes -o has always worked as expected for me.<br></span></font>
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