[slurm-users] Notify users about job submit plugin actions

[Lorenzo Bosio]

Hello everyone,

thanks for all the answers.

To elaborate further: I'm developing in C, but that's not a problem 
since I can find an equivalent to LUA as Jeffrey T Frey said.
One more thing I'd like to point out, is that I need to monitor jobs 
going from pending to running state (after waiting in the jobs queue). I 
currently have a separate pthread to achieve this, but I think at this 
point the job_submit()/job_modify() function has already exited.
I do get the output of the slurm_kill_job() function when called, but 
that's not useful for the user and I couldn't find a way to append 
custom messages.

Again, thanks everyone who helped.
Regards,
Lorenzo

On 19/07/23 16:00, Jeffrey T Frey wrote:
> In case you're developing the plugin in C and not LUA, behind the scenes the LUA mechanism is concatenating all log_user() strings into a single variable (user_msg).  When the LUA code completes, the C code sets the *err_msg argument to the job_submit()/job_modify() function to that string, then NULLs-out user-msg.  (There's a mutex around all of that code so slurmctld never executes LUA job submit/modify scripts concurrently.)  The slurmctld then communicates that returned string back to sbatch/salloc/srun for display to the user.
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>> On Jul 19, 2023, at 08:37, Angel de Vicente<angel.de.vicente at iac.es>  wrote:
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>> Hello Lorenzo,
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>> Lorenzo Bosio<lorenzo.bosio at unito.it>  writes:
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>>> I'm developing a job submit plugin to check if some conditions are met before a job runs.
>>> I'd need a way to notify the user about the plugin actions (i.e. why its jobs was killed and what to do), but after a lot of research I could only write to logs and not the user shell.
>>> The user gets the output of slurm_kill_job but I can't find a way to add a custom note.
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>>> Can anyone point me to the right api/function in the code?
>> In our "job_submit.lua" script we have the following for that purpose:
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>> ,----
>> |           slurm.log_user("%s: WARNING: [...]", log_prefix)
>> `----
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