qdisable(8B)

🎀 NAME 🎀

Okay bestie, welcome to qdisable(8B) from PBS. qdisable — disable input to a pbs destination. That's the whole assignment: it turns off the “new jobs welcome” sign for a destination. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

qdisable destination ...

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So qdisable directs that a destination should no longer accept batch jobs. No cap. If the command is accepted, the destination will no longer accept Queue Job requests which specified the disabled queue. Jobs which already reside in the queue will continue to be processed — they’re grandfathered in, periodt. This allows a queue to be "drained." 🫶

In order to execute qdisable, the user must have PBS Operation or Manager privilege. That’s the permission vibe check, bestie. 🔑

🦋 OPERANDS 🦋

The qdisable command accepts one or more destination operands. Those operands are one of three forms:

queue
@server
queue@server

• If queue is specified, the request is to disable that queue at the default server. Default-server behavior, iconic.
• If the @server form is given, the request is to disable all the queues at that server. All of them. The whole server’s queue lineup. 😭
• If a full destination identifier, queue@server, is given, the request is to disable the named queue at the named server. Very “name and address, please.” 💌

🌸 STANDARD ERROR 🌸

The qdisable command will write a diagnostic message to standard error for each error occurrence. So if something goes sideways, you get a message per error — not me pretending everything’s fine. 🙈

⭐ EXIT STATUS ⭐

Upon successful processing of all the operands presented to the qdisable command, the exit status will be a value of zero. Slay. ✅

If the qdisable command fails to process any operand, the command exits with a value greater than zero. That’s your “nope, something didn’t process” signal. 💀

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

pbs_server(8B), qmgr(1B), and qenable(8B) — go read those too, iykyk. 👑

That’s the whole page, bestie. Footer deets: Local source/version, manual qdisable(8B) — and there’s no date printed in this footer, so no invented date, fr fr. 🫶✨