NAME

       condor_now - HTCondor Manual

       Start a job now.

SYNOPSIS

       condor_now -help

       condor_now [-name ] [-debug** ] now-job vacate-job [vacate-job+ ]

DESCRIPTION

       condor_now  tries  to run the now-job now. The vacate-job is immediately vacated; after it
       terminates, if the schedd still has the claim to the vacated job's slot - and  it  usually
       will - the schedd will immediately start the now-job on that slot.

       If  you  specify  multiple  vacate-job s, each will be immediately vacated; after they all
       terminate, the schedd will try to coalesce their slots into a  single,  larger,  slot  and
       then use that slot to run the now-job.

       You must specify each job using both the cluster and proc IDs.

OPTIONS

          -help  Print a usage reminder.

          -debug Print  debugging  output.  Control  the verbosity with the environment variables
                 _CONDOR_TOOL_DEBUG, as usual.

          -name **
                 Specify the scheduler('s name) and (optionally) the pool to find it in.

GENERAL REMARKS

       The now-job and the vacated-job must have the  same  owner;  if  you  are  not  the  queue
       super-user,  you  must  own  both jobs. The jobs must be on the same schedd, and both jobs
       must be in the vanilla universe. The now-job must be idle  and  the  vacated-job  must  be
       running.

EXAMPLES

       To begin running job 17.3 as soon as possible using job 4.2's slot:

          $ condor_now 17.3 4.2

       To  try  to  figure  out  why that doesn't work for the 'magic' scheduler in the 'gandalf'
       pool, set the environment variable _CONDOR_TOOL_DEBUG to 'D_FULLDEBUG' and then:

          $ condor_now -debug -schedd magic -pool gandalf 17.3 4.2

EXIT STATUS

       condor_now will exit with a status value of 0 (zero) if the schedd accepts its request  to
       vacate the vacate-job and start the now-job in its place. It does not wait for the now-job
       to have started running.

AUTHOR

       HTCondor Team

COPYRIGHT

       1990-2024, Center for High Throughput Computing, Computer Sciences Department,  University
       of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, US. Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

                                           Apr 14, 2024                             CONDOR_NOW(1)