[slurm-users] strigger being called but program not executing (take 2)

[John Yost]

whoops, I guess images are not supported, sorry about that!

Here's what i am seeing:

$ sbatch simple.slurm
Submitted batch job 523
$ strigger --set --jobid=523 --fini --program=/bin/echo "job complete" >> /tmp/trigger.txt
$ strigger --get --jobid=523
TRIG_ID RES_TYPE   RES_ID TYPE                                OFFSET USER     FLAGS PROGRAM
      2 job           523 fini                                     0 slurm          /bin/echo
$

slurmctld log:

[2022-01-18T15:19:59.171] _job_complete: JobId=523 done
[2022-01-18T15:20:19.328] trigger uid=1338 type=job:fini exit=1:0

Although the trigger is fired, the trigger.txt file is never written, so it seems to be there is a problem executing the program I've defined, but I don't see any errors in slurmctld.log. Any ideas?

Thanks

--John

 

[Jared Baker]

I would suspect it's your invocation of strigger regarding your shell; Don't really think it's a Slurm issue. I'd probably do something like follows, but not tested.

`strigger --set --jobid=523 --fini --program="/bin/echo 'job complete' >> /tmp/trigger.txt"`

jared

[Jared Baker]

I suppose after looking at your other post (w/ images) you had tried quoting elements. I'd be suspicious about using IO redirection here within Slurm. I imagine there is no guarantee that Slurm triggers invokes a shell either and perhaps just does an exec. I'd wrap it up in a shell script file, make it executable, and try from there too and just use a single argument to program to test.

jared