Administering Platform LSF - SAS

Mail Notification When a Job Starts
Mail Notification When a Job Starts
bsub mail options
When a batch job completes or exits, LSF by default sends a job report by
electronic mail to the submitting user account. The report includes the
following information:
◆ Standard output (stdout) of the job
◆ Standard error (stderr) of the job
◆ LSF job information such as CPU, process and memory usage
The output from stdout and stderr are merged together in the order printed,
as if the job was run interactively. The default standard input (stdin) file is the
null device. The null device on UNIX is /dev/null.
-B Sends email to the job submitter when the job is dispatched and begins
running. The default destination for email is defined by LSB_MAILTO in
lsf.conf.
-u user_name If you want mail sent to another user, use the -u user_name option to the
bsub command. Mail associated with the job will be sent to the named user
instead of to the submitting user account.
-N If you want to separate the job report information from the job output, use the
-N option to specify that the job report information should be sent by email.
-o and -e Options The output file created by the -o option to the bsub command normally
contains job report information as well as the job output. This information
includes the submitting user and host, the execution host, the CPU time (user
plus system time) used by the job, and the exit status.
If you specify a -o output_file option and do not specify a -e error_file
option, the standard output and standard error are merged and stored in
output_file. You can also specify the standard input file if the job needs to
read input from stdin.
The output files specified by the -o and -e options are created on the
execution host.
See “Remote File Access” on page 516 for an example of copying the output
file back to the submission host if the job executes on a file system that is not
shared between the submission and execution hosts.
Disabling job
email
If you do not want job output to be sent by mail, specify stdout and stderr
as the files for -o and -e. For example, the following command directs stderr
and stdout to file named /tmp/job_out, and no email is sent.
bsub -o /tmp/job_out sleep 5
On UNIX, If you want no job output or email at all, specify /dev/null as the
output file:
bsub -o /dev/null sleep 5
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