On 1/26/26 7:36 pm, Norman Gaywood via slurm-users wrote:
When I attempt to filter for those exact states (using either the short or long flag), the output is empty: sacct -a -S 2026-01-26 --format=JobID,State --state=completed
This thing about sacct trips a lot of people (including me) up at various times. There's a section in the man page about it:
https://slurm.schedmd.com/sacct.html#SECTION_DEFAULT-TIME-WINDOW
For your use case:
WITHOUT --jobs AND WITH --state specified: --starttime defaults to Now. --endtime defaults to --starttime and to Now if --starttime is not
specified.
So short version is you need to specify an end time - here's an example of your command from one of our small test systems.
17:39:16 csamuel@muller-mgr:~> sacct -a -S 2026-01-26 --format=JobID,State --state=completed -n | wc -l 0
17:39:20 csamuel@muller-mgr:~> sacct -a -S 2026-01-26 --format=JobID,State --state=completed -n --end=NOW | wc -l 1226
Hope that helps!
All the best, Chris