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condor_tail

Display the last contents of a running job’s standard output or file

Synopsis

condor_tail [-help] | [-version]

condor_tail [-pool  centralmanagerhostname[:portnumber]] [-name  name] [-debug] [-maxbytes  numbytes] [-auto-retry] [-follow] [-no-stdout] [-stderr] job-ID [filename1] [filename2 …]

Description

condor_tail displays the last bytes of a file in the sandbox of a running job identified by the command line argument job-ID. stdout is tailed by default. The number of bytes displayed is limited to 1024, unless changed by specifying the -maxbytes option. This limit is applied for each individual tail of a file; for example, when following a file, the limit is applied each subsequent time output is obtained.

Options

-help
Display usage information and exit.
-version
Display version information and exit.
-pool centralmanagerhostname[:portnumber]
Specify a pool by giving the central manager’s host name and an optional port number.
-name name
Query the condor_schedd daemon identified with name.
-debug
Display extra debugging information.
-maxbytes numbytes
Limits the maximum number of bytes transferred per tail access. If not specified, the maximum number of bytes is 1024.
-auto-retry
Retry the tail of the file(s) every 2 seconds, if the job is not yet running.
-follow
Repetitively tail the file(s), until interrupted.
-no-stdout
Do not tail stdout.
-stderr
Tail stderr instead of stdout.

Exit Status

The exit status of condor_tail is zero on success.

Author

Center for High Throughput Computing, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Copyright

Copyright © 1990-2019 Center for High Throughput Computing, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI. All Rights Reserved. Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

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