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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Career advice Post 302106990 by rhfrommn on Tuesday 13th of February 2007 05:38:58 PM

02-13-2007

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My mentor had many great sayings, the most applicable one here is "Unix is Unix". Doesn't matter if Tru64 goes away, almost everythng you learn will be transferable to other versions. Studying another like Red Hat certainly can't hurt. Working with your SAN group is also a great move, I know many Unix admins who now work full or part time as SAN administrators. If you can get some real experience on Solaris or AIX that would be great too. But the main thing is learn as much as you can about as many things as you can. At the early career stage you're at that's the most important.

I have firsthand experience with this. This summer I got a contract to do Solaris and Veritas upgrades for a very large company in my city. When I showed up they told me they changed their mind and needed me to do AIX work instead. I'd been doing Solaris full-time for 7 years. My only AIX experience was about 3 months in a company with maybe 10% AIX servers a few years back. But I took the contract anyway and found that it was very easy to get up to speed on a different form of Unix since I knew Solaris so well. Even with that handicap, I did such a good job they recruited me away from my consulting firm for a permanent position.

You will end up in the same boat someday. It is highly unlikey your next job will be Tru64. But if you learn that thoroughly while you're working on it now, and learn as much as you can about the other varieties of Unix along the way, you'll be fine.

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globus-job-status

GLOBUS-JOB-STATUS(1)						  GRAM5 Commands					      GLOBUS-JOB-STATUS(1)

NAME

       globus-job-status - Check the status of a GRAM5 job

SYNOPSIS

       globus-job-status JOBID

       globus-job-status [-help] [-usage] [-version] [-versions]

DESCRIPTION

       The globus-job-status program checks the status of a GRAM job by sending a status request to the job manager contact for that job specifed
       by the JOBID parameter. If successful, it will print the job status to standard output. The states supported by globus-job-status are:

       PENDING
	   The job has been submitted to the LRM but has not yet begun execution.

       ACTIVE
	   The job has begun execution.

       FAILED
	   The job has failed.

       SUSPENDED
	   The job is currently suspended by the LRM.

       DONE
	   The job has completed.

       UNSUBMITTED
	   The job has been accepted by GRAM, but not yet submitted to the LRM.

       STAGE_IN
	   The job has been accepted by GRAM and is currently staging files prior to being submitted to the LRM.

       STAGE_OUT
	   The job has completed execution and is currently staging files from the service node to other http, GASS, or GridFTP servers.

OPTIONS

       The full set of options to globus-job-status are:

       -help, -usage
	   Display a help message to standard error and exit.

       -version
	   Display the software version of the globus-job-status program to standard output.

       -versions
	   Display the software version of the globus-job-status program including DiRT information to standard output.

ENVIRONMENT

       If the following variables affect the execution of globus-job-status.

       X509_USER_PROXY
	   Path to proxy credential.

       X509_CERT_DIR
	   Path to trusted certificate directory.

BUGS

       The globus-job-status program can not distinguish between the case of the job manager terminating for any reason and the job being in the
       DONE state.

SEE ALSO

       globusrun(1)

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