Note: This version of the VDT (1.10.0) is no longer supported. Feel free to look through the documentation and install it, but we cannot guarantee support for it. The current stable release is 2.0.0.

Condor-Cron

What is Condor-Cron?

Condor-Cron is a subset of Condor, which will only run "cron-like" jobs. Users requiring a full batch system or grid computing capabilities should continue to use the Condor package.

What is Condor-Cron used for?

Currently Condor-Cron is being used for OSG-RSV jobs. This keeps RSV jobs separate from your production jobs: you can stop or restart RSV jobs without affecting your production jobs. Also, we've provided wrappers for Condor commands specific to Condor-Cron. For example, you can see RSV jobs with condor_cron_q.

Preventing Condor-Cron from installing

If Condor-Cron fails to install correctly (this can happen if you are trying to install on an unsupported platform), or if you do not want to use Condor-Cron to manage OSG-RSV, you can prevent it from installing. To do this, set VDTSETUP_NO_CONDOR_CRON in your environment before installing any packages that include Condor-Cron. Note that doing this will prevent OSG-RSV's infrastructure from working (you can still run your OSG-RSV jobs via cron or another batch scheduler, but you will not be able to use vdt-control osg-rsv to enable/disable it).