how to update jobs to allow me to receive an email after the job finish running (slurm)

Question

I have submitted several jobs on a computing cluster, but did not set the --mail-user. Can I update the specification now? Hope to receive emails after the jobs finish running. Thanks a lot!

Answer 1

I am not sure Slurm allows that. What you can do is submit a dummy job dependent on the already-submitted job (with jobid <your-job-id>), like this:

sbatch --mail-user=<your-email-address> --mail-type=START --dependency=afterany:<your-job-id> --wrap "echo OK"

so that this job will start only when the one you wanted to modify ends, and it will send an email then.

Answer 2

MailUser and MailType fields can be updated. The default MailUser is the submitting user, so it may only be necessary to update the MailType.

scontrol update jobid=<jobid> MailUser=<[email protected]>

scontrol update jobid=<jobid> MailType=<END,FAIL,...>