QDEL(1) General Commands Manual QDEL(1)

qdel — delete batch jobs

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qdel job_identifier...

A batch job is deleted by sending a request to the batch server that manages the batch job. A batch job that has been deleted is no longer subject to management by batch services.

The qdel utility is a user-accessible client of batch services that requests the deletion of one or more batch jobs.

The qdel utility shall request a batch server to delete those batch jobs for which a batch job_identifier is presented to the utility.

The qdel utility shall delete batch jobs in the order in which their batch job_identifier s are presented to the utility.

If the qdel utility fails to process any batch job_identifier successfully, the utility shall proceed to process the remaining batch job_identifier s, if any.

The qdel utility shall delete each batch job by sending a to the batch server that manages the batch job.

The qdel utility shall not exit until the batch job corresponding to each successfully processed batch job_identifier has been deleted.

None.

The qdel utility shall accept one or more operands that conform to the syntax for a batch job_identifier (see V3_chap03(1)).

Not used.

None.

The following environment variables shall affect the execution of qdel:

Provide a default value for the internationalization variables that are unset or null. (See XBD the precedence of internationalization variables used to determine the values of locale categories.)
If set to a non-empty string value, override the values of all the other internationalization variables.
Determine the locale for the interpretation of sequences of bytes of text data as characters (for example, single-byte as opposed to multi-byte characters in arguments).
Determine the locale that should be used to affect the format and contents of diagnostic messages written to standard error.
Determine the login name of the user.

Default.

An implementation of the qdel utility may write informative messages to standard output.

The standard error shall be used only for diagnostic messages.

None.

None.

The following exit values shall be returned:

Successful completion.
An error occurred.

In addition to the default behavior, the qdel utility shall not be required to write a diagnostic message to standard error when the error reply received from a batch server indicates that the batch job_identifier does not exist on the server. Whether or not the qdel utility waits to output the diagnostic message while attempting to locate the job on other servers is implementation-defined.

None.

None.

The qdel utility allows users and administrators to delete jobs.

The qdel utility provides functionality that is not otherwise available. For example, the kill(1) utility of the operating system does not suffice. First, to use the kill(1) utility, the user might have to log in on a remote node, because the kill(1) utility does not operate across the network. Second, unlike qdel, kill(1) cannot remove jobs from queues. Lastly, the arguments of the qdel utility are job identifiers rather than process identifiers, and so this utility can be passed the output of the qselect(1) utility, thus providing users with a means of deleting a list of jobs.

Because a set of jobs can be selected using the qselect(1) utility, the qdel utility has not been complicated with options that provide for selection of jobs. Instead, the batch jobs to be deleted are identified individually by their job identifiers.

Historically, the qdel utility has been a component of NQS, the existing practice on which it is based. However, the qdel utility defined in this volume of POSIX.1-2017 does not provide an option for specifying a signal number to send to the batch job prior to the killing of the process; that capability has been subsumed by the qsig(1) utility.

A discussion was held about the delays of networking and the possibility that the batch server may never respond, due to a down router, down batch server, or other network mishap. The DESCRIPTION records this under the words "fails to process any job identifier". In the broad sense, the network problem is also an error, which causes the failure to process the batch job identifier.

The qdel utility may be removed in a future version.

V3_chap03(1), kill(1), qselect(1), qsig(1)

XBD V1_chap08(7)

Derived from IEEE Std 1003.2d-1994.

The and entries are removed from the ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES section.

The qdel utility is marked obsolescent.

SD5-XCU-ERN-97 is applied, updating the SYNOPSIS.

January 31, 2018 posix.fail