Thanks Chris! You're a legend! Adding the --end=NOW did the trick.
Cheers, Norm On Tue, 27 Jan 2026 at 12:42, Christopher Samuel via slurm-users < [email protected]> wrote: > On 1/26/26 7:36 pm, Norman Gaywood via slurm-users wrote: > > > When I attempt to filter for those exact states (using either the short > > or long flag), the output is empty: > > sacct -a -S 2026-01-26 --format=JobID,State --state=completed > > This thing about sacct trips a lot of people (including me) up at > various times. There's a section in the man page about it: > > https://slurm.schedmd.com/sacct.html#SECTION_DEFAULT-TIME-WINDOW > > For your use case: > > > WITHOUT --jobs AND WITH --state specified: > > --starttime defaults to Now. > > --endtime defaults to --starttime and to Now if --starttime is not > specified. > > So short version is you need to specify an end time - here's an example > of your command from one of our small test systems. > > 17:39:16 csamuel@muller-mgr:~> sacct -a -S 2026-01-26 > --format=JobID,State --state=completed -n | wc -l > 0 > > 17:39:20 csamuel@muller-mgr:~> sacct -a -S 2026-01-26 > --format=JobID,State --state=completed -n --end=NOW | wc -l > 1226 > > Hope that helps! > > All the best, > Chris > -- > Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Philadelphia, PA, USA > > -- > slurm-users mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >
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