No, that's the purpose of the special file - if it doesn't exist, then the cronjob doesn't go off whenever it periodically wakes up and says "should i reboot now".
I'd prefer a less-polling approach, but oh well, it works. - Rich On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Arnau Bria <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 10:18:18 -0500 > Rich Rich wrote: > > Hi Rich, > >> You could have a periodic check in crontab or similar for "if node is >> offline and list of jobs running on node is empty and [file exists in >> some magic place], reboot", have the file be removed on startup, and >> then send a job to create the file with the special high-priority >> user, then offline the node. >> >> It'll eventually reboot after being offlined and being out of jobs, so >> you drop human intervention without having to do much else. > > this is a nice approach and could fit our needs. > > But I should be adding/removing that cron cause, maybe, I set offline a > node (intervention, test, whatever) for other purpose and get rebooted / > online without control. > > But I like it. > > > Anyway, I'd like to undestand why backfill is still working with my > original scenario. > > >> - Rich > Thanks a lot Rich, > Arnau > _______________________________________________ > mauiusers mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.supercluster.org/mailman/listinfo/mauiusers > _______________________________________________ mauiusers mailing list [email protected] http://www.supercluster.org/mailman/listinfo/mauiusers
