slurmstepd(8)

NAME
slurmstepd - The job step manager for Slurm.

SYNOPSIS
slurmstepd

DESCRIPTION
slurmstepd is a job step manager for Slurm. It is spawned by the slurmd daemon when a job step is launched and terminates when the job step does. It is responsible for managing input and output (stdin, stdout and stderr) for the job step along with its accounting and signal processing. slurmstepd should not be initiated by users or system administrators.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES:
The following environment variables can be used to override settings compiled into slurmstepd.

SLURM_DEBUG_FLAGS
    Specify debug flags for slurmstepd to use. See DebugFlags in the slurm.conf(5) man page for a full list of flags. The environment variable takes precedence over the setting in the slurm.conf.

SIGNALS

SIGINT SIGTERM SIGQUIT
    slurmstepd will shutdown cleanly.

SIGPROF
    Logs connection manager state when debug level is at least info.

SIGTSTP SIGPIPE SIGUSR1 SIGUSR2 SIGALRM SIGHUP
    These signals are explicitly ignored.

COPYING
Copyright (C) 2006 The Regents of the University of California. Copyright (C) 2010-2022 SchedMD LLC. Produced at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (cf, DISCLAIMER). CODE-OCEC-09-009. All rights reserved.

This file is part of Slurm, a resource management program. For details, see <https://slurm.schedmd.com/>.

Slurm is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Slurm is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

SEE ALSO
slurmd(8)