CONDOR_EVICTED_FILES(1)

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version 25.14.1 · 12 versions
, in fedora 43

✨ NAME ✨

condor_evicted_files — it's the HTCondor manual, bestie, and this little tool is here to help you peek at the file(s) that HTCondor is still holding onto 💅

Why would it be holding onto them? Two reasons, and they're both very specific:

  • a job got evicted while when_to_transfer_output = ON_EXIT_OR_EVICT was set
  • or a checkpoint happened because CheckpointExitCode is set

Either way, the files didn't just vanish, and this tool knows where they went 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

condor_evicted_files [COMMAND] <clusterID>.<procID>[
<clusterID.<procID>]*

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so basically: you run this and it prints out the directory — or directories, plural, because you can totally ask about more than one job at a time — where HTCondor is stashing the files for whichever job(s) you named. 🎀

COMMAND can be one of dir, list, or get, and each one is a different flavour of nosy:

  • dir: prints the directory (for each job) where the file(s) are living.
  • list: lists out the actual contents of that directory (for each job). Give me the receipts 🔍
  • get: copies the contents of the directory into a subdirectory named after each job's ID. It's giving "come home, files" 🏠

👑 GENERAL REMARKS 👑

Right, so, real talk — this tool currently has some limitations, and you deserve to know them before you get attached:

  • It has to be run on the same machine as the job's schedd. No teleporting, sorry.
  • The schedd must NOT have ALTERNATE_JOB_SPOOL set.
  • With the get command you can't name the destination directory. It picks, not you 💀
  • The tool genuinely cannot tell the difference between an invalid job ID and a job that HTCondor never held any files for. Yeah. It's just like that.

⭐ EXIT STATUS ⭐

Returns 0 on success. That's it, that's the whole story. Iconic behaviour, no cap.

💖 AUTHOR 💖

Center for High Throughput Computing, University of Wisconsin-Madison

💜 AUTHOR 💜

HTCondor Team

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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HTCondor Manual, dated Oct 16, 2026 — she served, she slayed, she documented file spooling. periodt. 🎀✨👑

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