--- Original Message ---
> For those reading the list that run PBS, we have an interesting
> situation... After a fairly substantial crash, we've had to
> rebuild our
> PBS configuration.  We've also been asked to reset to the PBS
> job id
> counter to a position near where it left off [for reasons of
> accounting].  Has anyone ever done this??
> 
> cheers
> john


PBS Pro,  Open PBS, or TORQUE?  

One easy way, but a bit of a hack, is to write a script that submits a bunch of 
dummy jobs and qdel's them.

With Open PBS and older versions of torque you can edit the code that creates 
the server database to initialize the job counter to whatever number you want,  
then recompile the server, and start it with the -t create flag.

Newer versions of TORQUE include a qmgr hidden server attribute (documented, 
but not printed if you run "print server") called next_job_number.  qmgr -c "s 
s next_job_number=N"

With OpenPBS or TORQUE you can look at the source and figure out the format of 
the binary server database file and change the job id counter with a hex 
editor.  You might be able to reverse engineer the location of this in the 
server database for PBSPro by submitting a job and then looking to see what got 
incremented in the file - it is probably in the native byte order of your 
system.

Glen L. Beane
The Jackson Laboratory
Software Engineer III
Phone 207-288-6153


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