[slurm-users] scrontab question

[Sandor via slurm-users]

I am working out the details of scrontab. My initial testing is giving me an unsolvable question

Within scrontab editor I have the following example from the slurm documentation:

0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * /directory/subdirectory/crontest.sh

When I save it, scrontab marks the line with #BAD: I do not understand why. The only difference I have is the directory structure.

Is there an underlying assumption that traditional Linux crontab is available to the general user?

[Hagdorn, Magnus Karl Moritz via slurm-users]

Hm, strange. I don't see a problem with the time specs, although I
would use
*/5 * * * *
to run something every 5 minutes. In my scrontab I also specify a
partition, etc. But I don't think that is necessary.
regards
magnus

[Bjørn-Helge Mevik via slurm-users]

Sandor via slurm-users <slurm...@lists.schedmd.com> writes:

> I am working out the details of scrontab. My initial testing is giving me
> an unsolvable question

If you have an unsolvable problem, you don't have a problem, you have a
fact of life. :)

> Within scrontab editor I have the following example from the slurm
> documentation:
>
> 0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * *
> /directory/subdirectory/crontest.sh

- The command (/directory/...) should beon the same line as the time
spec (0,5,...) - but that was perhaps just the email formatting.

- Check for any UTF8 characters that look like ordinary ascii, for
instance "unbreakable space". I tend to just pipe the text throuth "od
-a".

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Cheers,
Bjørn-Helge Mevik, dr. scient,
Department for Research Computing, University of Oslo

[Cutts, Tim via slurm-users]

Someone may have said this already but you know that you can replace 0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 with */5?

 

Tim

 

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Tim Cutts

Scientific Computing Platform Lead

AstraZeneca

 

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