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8 Display the last contents of a running job's standard output or file
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12 condor_tail [-help ] | [-version ]
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14 condor_tail [-pool centralmanagerhostname[:portnumber]] [-name name]
15 [-debug ] [-maxbytes numbytes] [-auto-retry ] [-follow ] [-no-stdout ]
16 [-stderr ] job-ID [filename1 ] [filename2 ... ]
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19 condor_tail displays the last bytes of a file in the sandbox of a run‐
20 ning job identified by the command line argument job-ID. stdout is
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30 -help Display usage information and exit.
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33 Display version information and exit.
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35 -pool centralmanagerhostname[:portnumber]
36 Specify a pool by giving the central manager's host name and
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40 Query the condor_schedd daemon identified with name.
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42 -debug Display extra debugging information.
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45 Limits the maximum number of bytes transferred per tail ac‐
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49 Retry the tail of the file(s) every 2 seconds, if the job is
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53 Repetitively tail the file(s), until interrupted.
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59 Tail stderr instead of stdout.
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62 The exit status of condor_tail is zero on success.
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68 1990-2023, Center for High Throughput Computing, Computer Sciences De‐
69 partment, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, US. Licensed
70 under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
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