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).