ExplainingApel

From HTCondor job history files to batch and blah files

Each time a job is finished, a job record is created in the directory /var/lib/condor/history.

Thanks to a systemd timer (see /usr/lib/systemd/system/condor-ce-apel.timer), every hour, a script (/usr/share/condor-ce/condor_ce_apel.sh) is run to parse these history records and to generate the blah and batch files from them via the script /usr/share/condor-ce/condor_batch_blah.py. The blah and batch files are created in the directory /var/lib/condor-ce/apel. If for some reason, it fails to parse an history file, this file is moved to the subdirectory quarantine. Otherwise, it is removed.