Preferences

Bring up a preferences dialog box. In it you can specify the following defaults:

Local ssh command

The command you need to enter on your local machine to use the ssh command. Normally 'ssh' will be correct, but you might need to specify a full path, or the name of some other ssh program.

Local hostname

The name of your local host. It will default to a reasonable value, and you should probably not change it. It is specified here to handle mobile computers that change their name when connected to a different network. That will confuse ADFjobs, one single name should be choosen.

Timeout for remote commands

ADFjobs uses a lot of remote commands to get information about running jobs and so on. If network problems occur, or when a remote machine has some trouble, these commands will time out to so that ADFjobs can continue to work (with other hosts of course ...). If you have a slow network, or slow remote machines, you might want to specify a longer time out than the default 5 seconds.

When job starts running, show logfile

If you check this item, ADFjobs will show the logfile for any job that starts running. This is convenient to follow a job, but you might consider this to be interfering with other activities too much. Uncheck it to prevent this feature. You can always show the logfile of a job using the Logfile command from the SCM menu. When a job is still running, double clicking on the job icon will also show the logfile.

Run command checks that queue exists

When running a job, ADFjobs checks that the queue still exists in the Queue menu. Since all information is stored with the job, you can in principle still run even if the queue is no longer defined.

Run command checks that Job details match the queue

When running a job, ADFjobs checks that the job details are identical to those defined for the matching queue. Thus you will be warned if you made changes to the job details in the job, or if you redefined the queue.

Status window auto-refresh

When checked, the status window refreshes automatically after 5 minutes. If not checked, it refreshes by using the Status command from the Job menu, or by pressing Return when the status window is on top.