[torqueusers] Exit_status always 0, a BUG??

[Prabhakar R Gudla]

Hi,

I can confirm that in version 4.1.3, the Exit_status is working as expected.

Thanks,

Prabhakar


On 11/21/12 12:29, David Beer wrote:
> PRG,
> 
> TORQUE follows standard unix exit codes, so 0 means success. I will say
> that if you experience problems with 4.0.0, I'd strongly recommend that
> you upgrade to 4.1.3, it is far more stable and has a lot of fixes from
> 4.0.0. This however, doesn't seem like an issue.
> 
> David
> 
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Prabhakar R Gudla <gudlap at mail.nih.gov
> <mailto:gudlap at mail.nih.gov>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi,
> 
>     My apologies if this message gets posted twice.
> 
> 
>     Issue:
>     We are trying to get the "exit_status" of our jobs on our cluster
>     (CentOS 6.3, x86_64 with Torque 4.0.0 and pbs_sched).
> 
>     Everything looks fine, except that the "exit_status" is messed up and is
>     not what we expect. For instance, take the test PBS job (simple_job.sh)
>     with an exit code 11.  The job executes fine, we get the expected STDOUT
>     and STDERR. However, the "exit_status" code is always "0" either using
>     "qstat" or "tracejob".
> 
>     What could be wrong?
> 
> 
>     $ cat simple_job.sh
>     ------------------------------------------------------------------
>     #!/bin/bash
>     #PBS -N TorqueTest
>     #PBS -l nodes=1,walltime=00:01:00
>     #PBS -M xx at yyy.com <mailto:xx at yyy.com>
>     #PBS -m abe
>     #print the time and date
>     date
>     #wait 10 seconds
>     sleep 10
>     #print the time and date again
>     date
>     # Exit code
>     exit 11
>     ------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
>     $ qstat -f <jobid>
> 
>     See qstat_out.txt
> 
> 
>     $ tracejob <jobid>
> 
>     See tracejob_out.txt
> 
>     What could be going wrong?
> 
>     Thanks,
> 
>     PRG
> 
> 
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