queue issue

Hi there,

I have a queue that can hold a max of 10 jobs. I have had the scheduler running in nogui mode since yesterday. When I started the scheduler in gui mode, I see no jobs in the queue. However in my Queue folder in the OS I am seeing 10 entries there that have been in there since yesterday. It looks like there was an issue with deleting the entries in the file?

What's weird is that if I start the scheduler in gui mode, I can run the jobs just fine and the entries do not show up in the queue window.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

OK, so I killed the nogui process that was running and started the scheduler in gui mode.
When I did this the Agent where the jobs run got killed. It also killed a job that was running since yesterday.

The weird thing is that the job failed yesterday, but it looks like it never cleaned up.
Now I checked the Queue directory again on the master scheduler and there are still files in there.

How can I prevent this from happening?

At the time when you killed the scheduler process it had 10 jobs sitting in the queue. The associated files were left on the disk. What happens to such files later, depends on the scheduler settings for reloading and resetting queues on startup. If neither is set, old files will remain on the disk forever until they are deleted manually. The fact that you have files in the queue folder, doesn't necessarily mean that they are blocking anything or being used.

I do have reset job queues on startup checked and the files were still out there.

Please enable the tracing feature, restart the scheduler and check if any exceptions are reported in debug.log related to file deletion. Is the scheduler still running under the same user account that created the files? Any changes in the security settings, queue names? Can you delete these files manually, using the same user account?