CONDOR_VACATE(1)

✨ NAME ✨

condor_vacate — okay so this is the HTCondor Manual's page for it, and it does exactly one thing: it vacates jobs that are running on the specified hosts. That's the whole vibe. 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

condor_vacate [-help | -version]

condor_vacate [-graceful | -fast] [-debug] [-pool hostname[:portnumber]]
[-name hostname | -addr "<a.b.c.d:port>" | -constraint expression |
-all]

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

bestie. listen. condor_vacate makes HTCondor force jobs to vacate from a given set of machines. And the job(s)? They don't disappear — they stay right there in the submitting machine's job queue. 🫶

With the (default) -graceful option, jobs are killed and HTCondor restarts the job from the beginning somewhere else. Also super important: condor_vacate has no effect on a machine with no HTCondor job currently running. Nothing to vacate, nothing happens. Iconic behavior honestly.

And here's the thing — there's generally no need for the user or administrator to explicitly run condor_vacate. HTCondor takes care of jobs in this way automatically, following the policies given in configuration files. It's giving self-sufficient queen. 👑

⚠️ WARNING ⚠️ Do not confuse this tool with condor_vacate_job. They are two different girlies with two different jobs: - condor_vacate_job is intended for use by job owners to vacate their specific jobs. - condor_vacate is intended for use by machine owners/administrators to vacate machines. iykyk. don't mix them up. 😭

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -help — Display usage information. (ur little cheat sheet 💖)
• -version — Display version information. (who am I, really)
• -graceful — Give the job a chance to shut down cleanly, then soft-kill it. This is the default. 🌸
• -fast — Hard-kill jobs instead of giving them time to shut down cleanly. no warning, no goodbye, just gone 💀
• -debug — Causes debugging information to be sent to stderr, based on the value of the configuration variable TOOL_DEBUG.
• -pool hostname[:portnumber] — Specify a pool by giving the central manager's host name and an optional port number.
• -name hostname — Send the command to a machine identified by hostname.
• -addr "<a.b.c.d:port>" — Send the command to a machine's master located at "<a.b.c.d:port>".
• -constraint expression — Apply this command only to machines matching the given ClassAd expression. so picky. love that for us. ✨
• -all — Send the command to all machines in the pool. EVERYONE. 👑

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🌈 EXIT STATUS 🌈

• 0 — Success 🎉
• 1 — Failure 😭

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🦋 EXAMPLES 🦋

Vacate two named machines:

$ condor_vacate robin cardinal

Vacate a machine in a different pool:

$ condor_vacate -pool condor.cae.wisc.edu -name cae17

Vacate all machines matching a constraint:

$ condor_vacate -constraint 'Machine == "exec-*.example.com"'

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

condor_vacate_job, condor_off, condor_on, condor_restart

(the whole friend group fr fr 🫶)

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🌟 AVAILABILITY 🌟

Linux, MacOS, Windows — she's everywhere, she's universal, she's literally the moment. ⭐

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

HTCondor Team

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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 page bestie, no cap 🎀 this was CONDOR_VACATE(1) from the HTCondor Manual, and the version we're looking at is dated Oct 16, 2026. go forth and vacate responsibly 💖✨