Job starters

About job starters
A job starter is a specified shell script or executable program that sets up the environment for a job and then runs the job. The job starter and the job share the same environment. LSF supports three ways of running job starters: at the command, application, and queue levels. Learn how to set up and use each method.
Command-level job starters
A command-level job starter allows you to specify an executable file that does any necessary setup for the job and runs the job when the setup is complete. You can select an existing command to be a job starter, or you can create a script containing a desired set of commands to serve as a job starter.
Queue-level job starters
LSF administrators can define a job starter for an individual queue to create a specific environment for jobs to run in. A queue-level job starter specifies an executable that performs any necessary setup, and then runs the job when the setup is complete. The JOB_STARTER parameter in lsb.queues specifies the command or script that is the job starter for the queue.
Control the execution environment with job starters
In some cases, using bsub -L does not result in correct environment settings on the execution host.

Parent topic: Control job execution