bstatus

Gets current external job status or sets new job status.

Synopsis

bstatus [-d "description"] job_ID | "job_ID[index]" | -J job_name
bstatus [-h | -V]

Description

Gets and displays the message description text of a job, or changes the contents of the message description text with the -d option. Always operates on the message with index 0.

You can set the external status of a job until it completes. You cannot change the status of done or exited jobs. You can display the status of a job until it is cleaned from the system.

If you specify a job ID, the bstatus command has the following behavior:
  • You can get the external job status of jobs submitted by other users, but you cannot set job status of jobs that are submitted by other users.
  • You can set external status only on your own jobs.
  • Only root and LSF administrators can set external job status on jobs that are submitted by other users.
Job names are not unique; if you specify -J job_name the bstatus command has the following behavior:
  • You can get or set the external status only on your own jobs.
  • You cannot get or set external job status on jobs that are submitted by other users.
  • Root and the LSF administrators can get or set the external status only on their own jobs.

Options

-d "description"
Updates the job status with specified message description text.
job_ID | "job_ID[index]" | -J job_name
Required. Operates on the specified job.

The job name can be up to 4094 characters long. Job names are not unique.

The wildcard character (*) can be used anywhere within a job name, but it cannot appear within an array index. For example, the pattern job* returns jobA and jobarray[1]. The *AAA*[1] pattern returns the first element in job arrays with names that contain AAA. However, the pattern job1[*] does not return anything since the wildcard is within the array index.

-h
Prints command usage to stderr and exits.
-V
Prints LSF release version to stderr and exits.

Examples

bstatus 2500
JOBID    FROM    UPDATE_TIME   STATUS
2500     user1   Sep 14 16:54  step 1

Displays the message description text of message index 0 of job 2500.

bstatus -d "step 2" 2500

Changes the message description text of message index 0 of job 2500 to step 2.

See also

bpost, bread