Is there a proper way to delete workunits on the server that have been created? Until now I have been deleting workunits from the mySQL database and removing files in the project's download folder. While this makes the workunit stop being sent out, it causes errors and I am sure is not the proper way to do this.

Scenario: I was running "sample_work_generator" with the "uppercase" app and added a new workunit with an executable I had created and ran the "make_work" function for it. This executable was causing problems and I need it to stop being sent out, but I don't want to stop other work from being sent out. With "feeder", "transitioner", and "file_deleter" being the only daemons running, workunits of the faulty executable continue to be sent out because I have not successfully removed the workunits for it.

UPDATE:

I have found here
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/HtmlOps
that I can use the "Administrative "Web Interface" to cancel workunits. However, I see no documentation about how to access this functionality.

I think it's only included in the latest revision, or at least from something like 15600 onwards. This SVN is now being tested by some projects to see if it is stable, so only update if you really need to.

In the mean time, why not use http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/FileDeleter ?

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I spoke with someone today that told me you can get to the Administrative Web Interface by going to $PROJECTSERVER/$PROJECTNAME_ops in a browser. This actually has a nifty link for canceling workunits where you can specify a range of workunit ID's. Got the job done.

On the file_deleter, I didn't know of a way to get rid of the workunits I had named with the "_nodelete" tag on the end.

On the file_deleter, I didn't know of a way to get rid of the workunits I had named with the "_nodelete" tag on the end.

Right now it just won't delete those. I'd like to add the functionality, but have not had time, and it doesn't really matter. There should only be a few of those, compared to the larger set of workunits cloned from them, so they are not a big problem.

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-- Eric Myers

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