[Moabusers] Disabling showq's listing of blocked jobs

[Chris Samuel]

On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, Douglas Wightman wrote:

Hello Douglas,

> While there's nothing wrong with the patch I believe that it will have
> to remain specific to your site.  Almost all clusters use showq in
> conjunction with "grep" to quickly narrow down on a job's state.

I guess we're catering to a very different set of users to the usual clusters.

A fair proportion of our 500+ academics have very little IT experience 
(including people who have never used the command line before, even on 
Windows) and so we need to be able to make them feel that they've got a 
reasonable chance of running jobs and with pages and pages of blocked jobs 
from just one or two users being all they feel they see it's very easy for 
them to think they don't have a hope of getting their code to run.

> Your patch makes it so that showq no longer prints out the status of each
> job.  Because this breaks the default, expected behavior we are hesitant
> to roll it into the main trunk.

I can quite understand that! :-)

> What you are after has been partly implemented with "showq -s".

Ahh, interesting, that's not shown by showq --help so I wasn't aware it 
existed.

I wonder if it could be done as a build time option ?

cheers!
Chris
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