Tips & tricks

GNU Screen

You might find it useful to run grid-control in a GNU Screen session (see also Wikipedia) if you use ssh to connect to a submit host. This allows you to detach the screen session and disconnect your ssh connection, while grid-control keeps running on the host and further updates and (re)submits jobs. Also, you can reconnect to this session when ssh-ing to the host from a different machine (e.g. from your office and from home).

Global configuration

Global configuration options can be set per user in $HOME/.grid-control.conf. Any task configuration options will overwrite these.

[global]
workdir create = True ; don't ask if workdir should be created