CONDOR_CHECK_USERLOGS(1)

✨ NAME ✨

condor_check_userlogs — it's the HTCondor manual's lil' vibe-check tool, and its whole thing is: check job event log files for errors 💖

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

condor_check_userlogs UserLogFile1 [UserLogFile2 ...UserLogFileN ]

Bestie, you just hand it one log file, or like, a whole stack of them. Slay. You can pass as many <italic>UserLogFile</italic> arguments as your heart desires. 🫶

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so. condor_check_userlogs is a program whose entire job is checking a job event log — or a whole set of job event logs — for errors. That's it. That's the assignment, and it ate. 👑

And what do you actually get back? Two possible vibes:

• it tells you no errors were found within a log file (the good ending ✨), or
• it hits you with a list of errors 😭

And the errors it's clocking? Stuff like:

• an execute or terminate event without a corresponding submit event — the way that's just chaos fr fr 💀
• multiple terminated events for the same job 🙈

Basically it's giving detective. It reads through the events and catches the plot holes.

Now here's where it's highkey iconic: condor_check_userlogs is especially useful for debugging condor_dagman problems. So if condor_dagman starts reporting an error, it is often useful to run condor_check_userlogs on the relevant log files. Not me telling you the fix is right there the whole time 💅

🎀 pro tip energy (and also just, like, the manpage): when condor_dagman is being dramatic, go run condor_check_userlogs on the relevant log files. iykyk.

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⭐ EXIT STATUS ⭐

condor_check_userlogs will exit with a status value of 0 (zero) upon success, and it will exit with the value 1 (one) upon failure.

so like — 0 is the slay outcome, 1 is the "we found problems bestie" outcome. Two states. Very binary of it. 🌈

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

HTCondor Team — the ones who built all this. we love them, no cap. 🫶

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👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

1990-2026, Center for High Throughput Computing, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, US. Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

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okay that's the whole thing, bestie!! 🎀 this was the CONDOR_CHECK_USERLOGS(1) page from the HTCondor Manual, and the footer said it was last touched Oct 16, 2026 — so go forth, check those user logs, and stay iconic. 💖✨🦋