5.20) Interactive Jobs: Examples

Figure 5: shows screenshot of terminal with qsh command, and as it appears in the queue.

Figure 6: shows screen shot of the X-window launched on a compute node as a result of the qsh command.

Alternatively, you can launch an interactive session to run directly in your current terminal window via:

$ qrsh –cwd –V –l h_rt=2:00:00

Interactive jobs “gotchas”:

• Always run programs spawned in an interactive shell in the foreground. There is no job control if the job is run in the background
• Environment variables may be different on remote nodes

• Export variables with –V