Condor Commands Short List

Following are the most frequently used condor commands

Before running the following commands you need to set the following environment variables

export CONDOR_CONFIG=/home/condor_user/condor_installation_directory/etc/condor_config
export PATH=$PATH:/home/condor_user/condor_installation_directory/bin
export PATH=$PATH:/home/condor_user/condor_installation_directory/sbin



(1) To start the condor use 'condor_master' command

(2) use condor_status to see all the machines included in condor pool

(3) you can also use condor_off command to kill the condor processes and use condor_on command to start it again

(4) If you have a simple job to submit
EX: test

universe = vanilla
executable = /bin/ls
output = test.out
error = test.error
log = test.log
queue

you can run "condor_submit test" command

(5) Check the status of job using "condor_q" command

(6) To remove job from queue
use "condor_rm JobID"

(7) you can permenently remove job from local machine using "condor_rm -forcex jobID" command