-wa 'signal'

Specifies the job action to be taken before a job control action occurs.

A job warning action must be specified with a job action warning time in order for job warning to take effect.

If -wais specified, LSF sends the warning action to the job before the actual control action is taken. This allows the job time to save its result before being terminated by the job control action.

The warning action specified by -waoption overrides JOB_WARNING_ACTION in the queue. JOB_WARNING_ACTION is used as the default when no command line option is specified.

For example the following specifies that 2 minutes before the job reaches its runtime limit, an URG signal is sent to the job:

bsub -W 60 -wt '2' -wa 'URG' myjob

-wt '[hour:]minute' Specifies the amount of time before a job control action occurs that a job warning action is to be taken. Job action warning time is not normalized.

A job action warning time must be specified with a job warning action in order for job warning to take effect.

The warning time specified by the bsub -wtoption overrides JOB_ACTION_WARNING_TIME in the queue. JOB_ACTION_WARNING_TIME is used as the default when no command line option is specified.

For example the following specifies that 2 minutes before the job reaches its runtime limit, an URG signal is sent to the job:

bsub -W 60 -wt '2' -wa 'URG' myjob

-ZsSpools a job command file to the directory specified by the JOB_SPOOL_DIR parameter in lsb.params, and uses the spooled file as the command file for the job.

By default, the command file is spooled to

LSB_SHAREDIR/cluster_name/lsf_cmddir. If the lsf_cmddir directory does not exist, LSF creates it before spooling the file. LSF removes the spooled file when the job completes.

If JOB_SPOOL_DIR is specified, the -Zsoption spools the command file to the specified directory and uses the spooled file as the input file for the job.

JOB_SPOOL_DIR can be any valid path up to a maximum length up to 4094 characters on UNIX and Linux or up to 255 characters for Windows.

JOB_SPOOL_DIR must be readable and writable by the job submission user, and it must be shared by the master host and the submission host. If the specified directory is not accessible or does not exist, bsub -Zscannot write to the default directory LSB_SHAREDIR/cluster_name/lsf_cmddir and the job fails.

The -Zsoption is not supported for embedded job commands because LSF is unable to determine the first command to be spooled in an embedded job command.

-hPrints command usage to stderr and exits.

-VPrints LSF release version to stderr and exits.

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