[Moabusers] Temp suspension of user jobs

[Chris Samuel]

----- "Charles Johnson" <charles.johnson at accre.vanderbilt.edu> wrote:

> We had a need to temporarily --a couple of hours-- prevent a user's  
> jobs from running, but allowing them to queue. I did the following in 
> 
> my maob config file:
> 
> USERCFG[meilerj]  MAXJOB=0 MAXPROC=0 MAXNODE=0 PRIORITY=0
> 
> Is this the most appropriate way of doing this?

You might be better off with:

USERCFG[meilerj] HOLD=TRUE

This is what we do if we need to stop a user running
jobs that cause problems for some reason whilst we try
and track them down.

cheers,
Chris
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