Ubuntu Manpage: sge_shepherd - Grid Engine single job-controlling agent

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NAME

       sge_shepherd - Grid Engine single job-controlling agent

SYNOPSIS

       sge_shepherd

DESCRIPTION

sge_shepherd provides the parent process functionality for a single Grid Engine job. The
parent functionality is necessary on UNIX systems to retrieve resource usage information
(see getrusage(2)) after a job has finished. In addition, the sge_shepherd forwards
signals to the job, such for suspension, enabling, termination, and the Grid Engine
checkpointing signal (see sge_ckpt(1) and queue_conf(5) for details).

The sge_shepherd receives information about the job to be started from the sge_execd(8).
During the execution of the job it actually starts up to 5 child processes. First a prolog
script is run if this feature is enabled by the prolog parameter in the cluster
configuration. (See sge_conf(5).) Next a parallel environment startup procedure is run if
the job is a parallel job. (See sge_pe(5) for more information.) After that, the job
itself is run, followed by a parallel environment shutdown procedure for parallel jobs,
and finally an epilog script if requested by the epilog parameter in the cluster
configuration. The prolog and epilog scripts, as well as the parallel environment startup
and shutdown procedures, are to be provided by the Grid Engine administrator and are
intended for site-specific actions to be taken before and after execution of the actual
user job.

After the job has finished and the epilog script is processed, sge_shepherd retrieves
resource usage statistics about the job, places them in a job-specific subdirectory of the
sge_execd(8) spool directory for reporting through sge_execd(8), and finishes.

sge_shepherd also places an exit status file in the spool directory. This exit status can
be viewed with qacct -j JobId (see qacct(1)); it is not the exit status of sge_shepherd
itself but of one of the methods executed by sge_shepherd. This exit status can have
several meanings, depending on the method in which an error occurred (if any). The
possible methods are: prolog, parallel start, job, parallel stop, epilog, suspend,
restart, terminate, clean, migrate, and checkpoint.

The following exit values are returned:

0 All methods: Operation was executed successfully.

99 Job script, prolog and epilog: When FORBID_RESCHEDULE is not set in the
configuration (see sge_conf(5)), the job gets re-queued. Otherwise see "Other".

100 Job script, prolog and epilog: When FORBID_APPERROR is not set in the configuration
(see sge_conf(5)), the job gets re-queued. Otherwise see "Other".

Other Job script: This is the exit status of the job itself. No action is taken upon this
exit status because the meaning of this exit status is not known.
Prolog, epilog and parallel start: The queue is set to error state and the job is
re-queued.
Parallel stop: The queue is set to error state, but the job is not re-queued. It is
assumed that the job itself ran successfully and only the clean up script failed.
Suspend, restart, terminate, clean, and migrate: Always successful.
Checkpoint: Success, except for kernel checkpointing: checkpoint was not
successful, did not happen (but migration will happen).

For the meaning of the return codes of the shepherd itself (which are interpreted by
qacct(1)) see sge_status(5).

RESTRICTIONS

       sge_shepherd should not be invoked manually, but only by sge_execd(8).

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

SGE_ROOT Specifies the location of the Grid Engine standard configuration files.

SGE_CELL If set, specifies the default Grid Engine cell. To address a Grid Engine
cell sge_execd uses (in the order of precedence):

The name of the cell specified in the environment variable SGE_CELL,
if it is set.

The name of the default cell, i.e. default.

SGE_ENABLE_COREDUMP
If set, enable core dumps on Linux when the admin_user is not root. Linux
normally disables core dumps when the daemon has changed uid or gid.
Setting SGE_ENABLE_COREDUMP in sge_execd's environment defeats that to
enable core dumps for debugging if they are otherwise allowed. This is
typically not a big hazard with SGE, since most information is exposed in
the spool area anyhow. Dumps will appear in the qmaster spool directory,
which need not be world-readable.
On Solaris, coreadm(1) may be used to enable such dumps.

SGE_CGROUP_DIR If Linux cgroups handling is enabled, this variable names a directory under
the cgroup mount point in which to create job-specific directories. The
default is sge.SGE_CELL so, for instance, the cpuset cgroup for a job might
be /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset/sge.default/123.

FILES

       sgepasswd contains a list of user names and their corresponding  encrypted  passwords.  If
       available,  the password file will be used by sge_shepherd. To change the contents of this
       file please use the sgepasswd command. It is not advised to change that file manually.
       <execd_spool>/job_dir/<job_id>     job specific directory
       <sge_root>/<cell>/common/sgepasswd
                                          Password information used on Microsoft Windows hosts.  See
       sgepasswd(5).

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