[slurm-users] how to easily to obtain jobid for array jobs?

[Michael Gutteridge]

There is also the SQUEUE_FORMAT environment variable.  Set that in the
appropriate place (/etc/profile and such) to '%i %A (and whatever other
output you like)' and you should be good to go.

 - Michael

On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 4:00 AM Loris Bennett <loris.bennett at fu-berlin.de>
wrote:

> Hi Daan,
>
> Daan van Rossum <d.r.vanrossum at gmx.de> writes:
>
> > Dear slurm-users,
> >
> > My users complain about not being able to cancel array jobs (on slurm
> 17.11.3).
> >
> > The problem is that squeue by default outputs the %i (job step id) for
> array jobs, which cannot be used in scancel.  What /can/ be used is %A (job
> id).  How can I tell users to easily find that number?  There is certainly
> a better way to obtain the jobid than by translating between %i and %A
> using:
> >
> > # squeue -o '%i %A' | grep $jobstepid
> >
> > Is there a way to customize the default squeue output format?
> >
> > Thanks, Daan
> >
> > From the man page:
> >               %i    Job  or  job  step id.  In the case of job arrays,
> the
> >                     job    ID    format    will    be    of    the
> form
> >                     "<base_job_id>_<index>".
> >
> >               %A    Job id.  This will have a unique value for  each
> ele‐
> >                     ment of job arrays.  (Valid for jobs only)
>
> You could always just use overwrite squeue with alias which you put it
> in /etc/profile.d or where ever you have your global setting, although
> this could also potentially cause some confusion.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Loris
>
> --
> Dr. Loris Bennett (Mr.)
> ZEDAT, Freie Universität Berlin         Email loris.bennett at fu-berlin.de
>
>
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