Using and Administering

notification

Specifies when the user specified in the notify_user keyword is sent mail. The syntax is:

notification = always|error|start|never|complete

Where:

always

Notify the user when the job begins, ends, or if it incurs error conditions.

error

Notify the user only if the job fails.

start

Notify the user only when the job begins.

never

Never notify the user.

complete

Notify the user only when the job ends. This is the default.

For example, if you want to be notified with mail only when your job step completes, your notification keyword would be:

notification = complete

When a LoadLeveler job ends, you may receive UNIX mail notification indicating the job exit status. For example, you could get the following mail message:

Your LoadLeveler job
myjob1
exited with status 4.

The return code 4 is from the user's job. LoadLeveler retrieves the return code and returns it in the mail message, but it is not a LoadLeveler return code.