The pipeline can now be scheduled for shutdown by creating a file in the pipeline installation directory. The file must be named "shutdown_schedule" and must contain exactly 2 lines, both of which are dates in the form understood by the unix date command. When the first date has passed, the monitor (which runs every 5 minutes in cron) will shutdown the pipeline and not restart it until the second date has passed or the file has been removed. (The second date could also be changed to the current time in order to force the monitor to restart the pipeline on it's next execution.)
As an example, the following file will be used to turn off the pipeline during the Sept 30th computing center 1st-floor power outage:
[dflath@glastlnx13 prod]$ pwd
/afs/slac.stanford.edu/u/gl/glast/pipeline-II/prod
[dflath@glastlnx13 prod]$ cat shutdown_schedule
Wed Sep 30 04:25:00 PDT 2009
Wed Sep 30 17:00:00 PDT 2009
[dflath@glastlnx13 prod]$
See:
https://jira.slac.stanford.edu/browse/PII-398
And: