[torqueusers] Returned job id does not equal qstat id.

[Garrick Staples]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 03:23:03PM +0200, Steve Traylen alleged:
> Hi,
> 
>  I am trying to diagnose someone else's troque server and have become
> stuck for ideas.
> 
>  $ qsub test.sh
> 
>  returns something like
> 
>  12345.torque-host.example.org
> 
>  However
> 
>  $ qstat 12345.torque-host.example.org
> 
>  returns "no such job"
> 
>  And indeed
> 
>  $ qstat
> 
>  shows the the job as being called
> 
>  12345.torque-host
> 
>  with the shortname.
> 
>  /var/spool/pbs/server_name  contains the long name torque-host.example.org
>  and
>  hostname and hostname -f both return the long name torque-host.example.org
> 
>  what else can set the hostname of the jobid to be short rather than
> long within a qstat?

I think you will find that the reverse resolution doesn't match the forward.
torque-host.example.org resolves to x.x.x.x which reverses to torque-host.

pbs_server has an internal hostname that defaults to the reverse of the IP.
You can set it with 'set server server_name=foo.example.org'.

-- 
Garrick Staples, GNU/Linux HPCC SysAdmin
University of Southern California

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