> -----Original Message----- > From: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes [mailto:TB- > [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Stephen Jones > Sent: 08 July 2011 14:12 > > That's how I think the system, should work; i.e. if the CE tells the WN > that the file is supposed to be there (expired or not) then it should be > there. Having said that, it's pointless (yet fairly > harmless) to keeping looping the job through Q/R/W/Q/R/W ... for ever, as > if the proxy file might someday show up. It won't. > I'd have thought the obvious thing would be to have the CE tell the batch system that a job is dead when the CE knows that it's dead - i.e. clean up the input files /and/ qdel the job. Ewan