how to run a starjob in background?
 

Hi there,

I use a local pc to logon a unix super computer there installed the StarCD.

My question is whether I can run the starjob on the background of the super computer. Then I logouted my machine. After several hours, I login my machine to take a look at the computation.

A simple logout just kills the process and terminates the computation, because the starjob keeps writing the iteration residual and monitoring values back to my screen.

Is it possible I can turn off the screen writing of a starjob or redirect it to a disk file?

Thanks very much.

Jiaying

Note: I can run starjob in background by issueing a unix command with a surfix & charecter, but this is not my point. My intention is to disconnect my local pc from the unix machine but keep the starjob running on the unix machine.

Re: how to run a starjob in background?
 

Hello, Jiaying,

you can use the unix command NOHUP to keep jobs running after disconnecting from the remote machine. Simply start

nohup < your shell script > &

The shell script is used to issue the case name to the star executable. The executable is created with the command STARLINK. An example shell script looks like this:

#!/bin/sh

./star.exe << EOD

star

EOD

with "star.exe" the name of the executable and "star" the casename. The program output will be directed to a file called NOHUP.OUT.

Hope this helps.

Stephan

Re: how to run a starjob in background?
 

Works as you said. Many thanks, Stephan. Jiaying

Re: how to run a starjob in background?
 

I found that "star_inter.sh > outputfile &" also works well, especially replacing outputfile with /dev/null will redirect screen writing to NULL. This is useful since a .run file also records iteration history. Regards. Jiaying