[Beowulf] Users abusing screen

Gavin W. Burris bug at sas.upenn.edu
Fri Oct 21 08:17:55 PDT 2011


On 10/21/2011 11:06 AM, Kilian Cavalotti wrote:
> Hi Prentice,
> 
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Prentice Bisbal <prentice at ias.edu> wrote:
>>> Have you thought about queueing systems like condor or SGE?
>>
>> Yes, I have cluster that uses SGE, and we allow users to run serial jobs
>> (non-MPI, etc.) there, so there is no need for them to use screen to
>> execute long-running jobs. Hence my frustration.
> 
> You could alias "screen" to "qlogin". :)
> 
> Cheers,


I think we have a winner. :)

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Gavin W. Burris
Senior Systems Programmer
Information Security and Unix Systems
School of Arts and Sciences
University of Pennsylvania



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