I have a job that keeps getting submitted to the job
queue even though it has already been submitted. So,
I am not receiving the "Semaphore Ignored" log message
like I should. Please help.

Please post relvant part of you job log file schedule.log demonstrating this problem. I want to see multiple lines with job started, queued, finished, etc...

: I have a job that keeps getting submitted to the job
: queue even though it has already been submitted. So,
: I am not receiving the "Semaphore Ignored" log message
: like I should. Please help.

I have two jobs that this happened to this morning. I believe the execution errors
are occuring because the jobs are stepping on eachother.
Both jobs are set to run asynchronously.

3/2/2005 03:54:46 0 208 0 Create Velocity AFS Data Load Semaphore file Semaphore file(s) d:\afsftp\lutqual.txt found. Submitting job to the queue.
3/2/2005 03:54:46 0 208 0 Create Velocity AFS Data Load Semaphore file Job started.
3/2/2005 03:54:46 0 208 0 Create Velocity AFS Data Load Semaphore file Job finished.
3/2/2005 04:04:46 0 208 0 Create Velocity AFS Data Load Semaphore file Semaphore file(s) d:\afsftp\lutqual.txt found. Submitting job to the queue.
3/2/2005 04:04:47 0 208 0 Create Velocity AFS Data Load Semaphore file Job started.
3/2/2005 04:04:47 0 208 0 Create Velocity AFS Data Load Semaphore file Job finished.
3/2/2005 04:14:46 0 202 0 Load AFS Daily Semaphore file(s) d:\afsftp\daily\lutqual.txt found. Submitting job to the queue.
3/2/2005 04:14:47 0 202 0 Load AFS Daily Job started.
3/2/2005 04:14:47 0 202 0 Load AFS Daily Start message sent.
3/2/2005 04:19:46 0 202 0 Load AFS Daily Semaphore file(s) d:\afsftp\daily\lutqual.txt found. Submitting job to the queue.
3/2/2005 04:19:47 0 202 0 Load AFS Daily Job started.
3/2/2005 04:19:47 0 202 0 Load AFS Daily Start message sent.
3/2/2005 04:19:48 0 202 0 Load AFS Daily Error message sent.
3/2/2005 04:19:49 1 202 0 Load AFS Daily Notification Action Failed: Error 10061: Error connecting to server. Extended error code 3.
3/2/2005 04:19:49 2 202 0 Load AFS Daily Job Load AFS Daily execution error. Exit code: -1. Process finished with exit code 1
3/2/2005 04:24:46 0 202 0 Load AFS Daily Semaphore file(s) d:\afsftp\daily\lutqual.txt found. Submitting job to the queue.
3/2/2005 04:24:46 0 202 0 Load AFS Daily Job started.
3/2/2005 04:24:47 0 202 0 Load AFS Daily Start message sent.
3/2/2005 04:24:48 0 202 0 Load AFS Daily Error message sent.
3/2/2005 04:24:48 1 202 0 Load AFS Daily Notification Action Failed: Error 10061: Error connecting to server. Extended error code 3.
3/2/2005 04:24:48 2 202 0 Load AFS Daily Job Load AFS Daily execution error. Exit code: -1. Process finished with exit code 1
3/2/2005 04:29:46 0 202 0 Load AFS Daily Semaphore file(s) d:\afsftp\daily\lutqual.txt found. Submitting job to the queue.
3/2/2005 04:29:46 0 202 0 Load AFS Daily Job started.
3/2/2005 04:29:47 0 202 0 Load AFS Daily Start message sent.
3/2/2005 04:29:48 0 202 0 Load AFS Daily Error message sent.
3/2/2005 04:29:49 1 202 0 Load AFS Daily Notification Action Failed: Error 10061: Error connecting to server. Extended error code 3.
3/2/2005 04:29:49 2 202 0 Load AFS Daily Job Load AFS Daily execution error. Exit code: -1. Process finished with exit code 1
3/2/2005 04:34:46 0 202 0 Load AFS Daily Semaphore file(s) d:\afsftp\daily\lutqual.txt found. Submitting job to the queue.
3/2/2005 04:34:47 0 202 0 Load AFS Daily Job started.
3/2/2005 04:34:47 0 202 0 Load AFS Daily Start message sent.
3/2/2005 04:34:48 0 202 0 Load AFS Daily Error message sent.
3/2/2005 04:34:49 1 202 0 Load AFS Daily Notification Action Failed: Error 10061: Error connecting to server. Extended error code 3.
3/2/2005 04:34:49 2 202 0 Load AFS Daily Job Load AFS Daily execution error. Exit code: -1. Process finished with exit code 1
3/2/2005 04:39:46 0 202 0 Load AFS Daily Semaphore file(s) d:\afsftp\daily\lutqual.txt found. Submitting job to the queue.
3/2/2005 04:39:47 0 202 0 Load AFS Daily Job started.
3/2/2005 04:39:48 0 202 0 Load AFS Daily Start message sent.
3/2/2005 04:39:48 0 202 0 Load AFS Daily Error message sent.
3/2/2005 04:39:49 1 202 0 Load AFS Daily Notification Action Failed: Error 10061: Error connecting to server. Extended error code 3.
3/2/2005 04:39:49 2 202 0 Load AFS Daily Job Load AFS Daily execution error. Exit code: -1. Process finished with exit code 1
3/2/2005 04:44:46 0 202 0 Load AFS Daily Semaphore file(s) d:\afsftp\daily\lutqual.txt found. Submitting job to the queue.
3/2/2005 04:44:46 0 202 0 Load AFS Daily Job started.
3/2/2005 04:44:47 0 202 0 Load AFS Daily Start message sent.
3/2/2005 04:44:48 0 202 0 Load AFS Daily Error message sent.
3/2/2005 04:44:49 1 202 0 Load AFS Daily Notification Action Failed: Error 10061: Error connecting to server. Extended error code 3.
3/2/2005 04:44:49 2 202 0 Load AFS Daily Job Load AFS Daily execution error. Exit code: -1. Process finished with exit code 1
3/2/2005 04:48:42 0 202 0 Load AFS Daily Finish message sent.
3/2/2005 04:48:42 0 202 0 Load AFS Daily Job finished.

: Please post relvant part of you job log file schedule.log demonstrating this
: problem. I want to see multiple lines with job started, queued, finished,
: etc...

If I understand it correctly you got 2 linked jobs. The first job #208 "Create Velocity AFS Data Load Semaphore file" finds its d:\afsftp\lutqual.txt semaphore file and during job processing moves it to d:\afsftp\daily\lutqual.txt. The second job #202 "Load AFS Daily Semaphore file(s)" finds that file and processes it. During the proce3ssing that job fails and as a result it never deletes, renames or moves d:\afsftp\daily\lutqual.txt file. As a side effect of the failure the file remains where it is and the job finds the same file again and again.

The solutions (any of the following):
1. Fix the job so it runs without errors.
2. Make the job to rename that file before processing to avoid recursive starts in case of failures. This is always a good idea.
3. Enable "disable job on error" option for that job and enable email error notification.. This way the scheduler will send you email if the job fails; it will also disable the job to avoid repeating errors until you come and fix the cause of the error.

: I have two jobs that this happened to this morning. I believe the execution
: errors
: are occuring because the jobs are stepping on eachother.
: Both jobs are set to run asynchronously.

: 3/2/2005 03:54:46 0 208 0 Create Velocity AFS Data Load Semaphore file
: Semaphore file(s) d:\afsftp\lutqual.txt found. Submitting job to the
: queue.
: 3/2/2005 03:54:46 0 208 0 Create Velocity AFS Data Load Semaphore file Job
: started.
: 3/2/2005 03:54:46 0 208 0 Create Velocity AFS Data Load Semaphore file Job
: finished.
: 3/2/2005 04:04:46 0 208 0 Create Velocity AFS Data Load Semaphore file
: Semaphore file(s) d:\afsftp\lutqual.txt found. Submitting job to the
: queue.
: 3/2/2005 04:04:47 0 208 0 Create Velocity AFS Data Load Semaphore file Job
: started.
: 3/2/2005 04:04:47 0 208 0 Create Velocity AFS Data Load Semaphore file Job
: finished.
: 3/2/2005 04:14:46 0 202 0 Load AFS Daily Semaphore file(s)
: d:\afsftp\daily\lutqual.txt found. Submitting job to the queue.
: 3/2/2005 04:14:47 0 202 0 Load AFS Daily Job started.
: 3/2/2005 04:14:47 0 202 0 Load AFS Daily Start message sent.
: 3/2/2005 04:19:46 0 202 0 Load AFS Daily Semaphore file(s)
: d:\afsftp\daily\lutqual.txt found. Submitting job to the queue.
: 3/2/2005 04:19:47 0 202 0 Load AFS Daily Job started.
: 3/2/2005 04:19:47 0 202 0 Load AFS Daily Start message sent.
: 3/2/2005 04:19:48 0 202 0 Load AFS Daily Error message sent.
: 3/2/2005 04:19:49 1 202 0 Load AFS Daily Notification Action Failed: Error
: 10061: Error connecting to server. Extended error code 3.
: 3/2/2005 04:19:49 2 202 0 Load AFS Daily Job Load AFS Daily execution error.
: Exit code: -1. Process finished with exit code 1
: 3/2/2005 04:24:46 0 202 0 Load AFS Daily Semaphore file(s)
: d:\afsftp\daily\lutqual.txt found. Submitting job to the queue.
: 3/2/2005 04:24:46 0 202 0 Load AFS Daily Job started.
: 3/2/2005 04:24:47 0 202 0 Load AFS Daily Start message sent.
: 3/2/2005 04:24:48 0 202 0 Load AFS Daily Error message sent.
: 3/2/2005 04:24:48 1 202 0 Load AFS Daily Notification Action Failed: Error
: 10061: Error connecting to server. Extended error code 3.
: 3/2/2005 04:24:48 2 202 0 Load AFS Daily Job Load AFS Daily execution error.
: Exit code: -1. Process finished with exit code 1
: 3/2/2005 04:29:46 0 202 0 Load AFS Daily Semaphore file(s)
: d:\afsftp\daily\lutqual.txt found. Submitting job to the queue.
: 3/2/2005 04:29:46 0 202 0 Load AFS Daily Job started.
: 3/2/2005 04:29:47 0 202 0 Load AFS Daily Start message sent.
: 3/2/2005 04:29:48 0 202 0 Load AFS Daily Error message sent.
: 3/2/2005 04:29:49 1 202 0 Load AFS Daily Notification Action Failed: Error
: 10061: Error connecting to server. Extended error code 3.
: 3/2/2005 04:29:49 2 202 0 Load AFS Daily Job Load AFS Daily execution error.
: Exit code: -1. Process finished with exit code 1
: 3/2/2005 04:34:46 0 202 0 Load AFS Daily Semaphore file(s)
: d:\afsftp\daily\lutqual.txt found. Submitting job to the queue.
: 3/2/2005 04:34:47 0 202 0 Load AFS Daily Job started.
: 3/2/2005 04:34:47 0 202 0 Load AFS Daily Start message sent.
: 3/2/2005 04:34:48 0 202 0 Load AFS Daily Error message sent.
: 3/2/2005 04:34:49 1 202 0 Load AFS Daily Notification Action Failed: Error
: 10061: Error connecting to server. Extended error code 3.
: 3/2/2005 04:34:49 2 202 0 Load AFS Daily Job Load AFS Daily execution error.
: Exit code: -1. Process finished with exit code 1
: 3/2/2005 04:39:46 0 202 0 Load AFS Daily Semaphore file(s)
: d:\afsftp\daily\lutqual.txt found. Submitting job to the queue.
: 3/2/2005 04:39:47 0 202 0 Load AFS Daily Job started.
: 3/2/2005 04:39:48 0 202 0 Load AFS Daily Start message sent.
: 3/2/2005 04:39:48 0 202 0 Load AFS Daily Error message sent.
: 3/2/2005 04:39:49 1 202 0 Load AFS Daily Notification Action Failed: Error
: 10061: Error connecting to server. Extended error code 3.
: 3/2/2005 04:39:49 2 202 0 Load AFS Daily Job Load AFS Daily execution error.
: Exit code: -1. Process finished with exit code 1
: 3/2/2005 04:44:46 0 202 0 Load AFS Daily Semaphore file(s)
: d:\afsftp\daily\lutqual.txt found. Submitting job to the queue.
: 3/2/2005 04:44:46 0 202 0 Load AFS Daily Job started.
: 3/2/2005 04:44:47 0 202 0 Load AFS Daily Start message sent.
: 3/2/2005 04:44:48 0 202 0 Load AFS Daily Error message sent.
: 3/2/2005 04:44:49 1 202 0 Load AFS Daily Notification Action Failed: Error
: 10061: Error connecting to server. Extended error code 3.
: 3/2/2005 04:44:49 2 202 0 Load AFS Daily Job Load AFS Daily execution error.
: Exit code: -1. Process finished with exit code 1
: 3/2/2005 04:48:42 0 202 0 Load AFS Daily Finish message sent.
: 3/2/2005 04:48:42 0 202 0 Load AFS Daily Job finished.