Appendices > Appendix A: Commands overview > qchkpt

qchkpt

Checkpoint pbs batch jobs.

Synopsis

qchkpt <JOBID>[ <JOBID>] ...

Description

The qchkpt command requests that the PBS Mom generate a checkpoint file for a running job.

This is an extension to POSIX.2d.

The qchkpt command sends a Chkpt Job batch request to the server as described in the general section.

Options

None.

Operands

The qchkpt command accepts one or more job_identifier operands of the form:

sequence_number[.server_name][@server]

Examples

> qchkpt 3233 request a checkpoint for job 3233

Standard error

The qchkpt command will write a diagnostic message to standard error for each error occurrence.

Exit status

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

If the qchkpt command fails to process any operand, the command exits with a value greater than zero.

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