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Name

qdel - delete pbs batch job

Synopsis

qdel [-W delay|force] job_identifier ...

Description

The qdel command deletes jobs in the order in which their job identifiers are presented to the command. A job is deleted by sending a Delete Job batch request to the batch server that owns the job. A job that has been deleted is no longer subject to management by batch services.

A batch job may be deleted by its owner, the batch operator, or the batch administrator.

A batch job being deleted by a server will be sent a SIGTERM signal following by a SIGKILL signal. The time delay between the two signals is an attribute of the execution queue from which the job was run (settable by the administrator). This delay may be overridden by the -W delay option, where delay is a time secified in seconds.

The -W force option, where force is the literal character string force , directs that the job is to be deleted even if the node on which the job is executing is unreachable.

See the PBS ERS section 3.1.3.3, Delete Job Request", for more information.

Options

-W delay
Specify the delay between the sending of the SIGTERM and SIGKILL signals. The argument delay specifies a unsigned integer number of seconds.

Operands

The qdel command accepts one or more job_identifier operands of the form:
sequence_number[.server_name][@server]

Standard Error

The qdel command will write a diagnostic messages to standard error for each error occurrence.

Exit Status

Upon successful processing of all the operands presented to the qdel command, the exit status will be a value of zero.

If the qdel command fails to process any operand, the command exits with a value greater than zero.

See Also

qsub(1B) , qsig(1B) , and pbs_deljob(3B)


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