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Configuring Job Controls
After a job is started, it can be killed, suspended, or resumed by the system, an LSF
user, or LSF administrator. LSF job control actions cause the status of a job to
change. This chapter describes how to configure job control actions to override or
augment the default job control actions.
Contents
◆ Default Job Control Actions on page 583
◆ Configuring Job Control Actions on page 585
◆ Customizing Cross-Platform Signal Conversion on page 588
Default Job Control Actions
After a job is started, it can be killed, suspended, or resumed by the system, an LSF
user, or LSF administrator. LSF job control actions cause the status of a job to
change. LSF supports the following default actions for job controls:
◆ SUSPEND
◆ RESUME
◆ TERMINATE
On successful completion of the job control action, the LSF job control commands
cause the status of a job to change.
The environment variable LS_EXEC_T is set to the value JOB_CONTROLS for a
job when a job control action is initiated.
See Killing Jobs on page 124 for more information about job controls and the LSF
commands that perform them.
SUSPEND action
Change a running job from RUN state to one of the following states:
◆ USUSP or PSUSP in response to bstop
◆ SSUSP state when the LSF system suspends the job
The default action is to send the following signals to the job: