It may be that the problem is actually with accessing https://he.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=tokens&type=login&format=xml

I had some SSL problems which I thought I fixed in the account

@Aklapper ?

It seems unlikely that the server has no network access, so this is likely an issue in your code or the .net mediawiki library you're using. You can test manually on the server by sshing to it (e.g. ssh tools-exec-1401). This is OK for debugging, but not as a normal way to run code.

Finally, there are some differences in the environment variables between a command run from a shell or from SGE. For example, .bashrc is not parsed by SGE, so if you have any modification there they will not be reflected. I assume .NET has a way to show current env variables -- that would be one place to get started.

@valhallasw thank you for commenting.

ssh -T tools-exec-1403 /usr/bin/mono BotHasava.exe works fine. I didn't find any env var justifying this problem. Certainly it's not a problem of tools-exec-1401 not having internet access but something more complex but I need a way to debug it.

Is there a way I can get the same env as jsub on the login server or in a more or less interactive shell?

thanks

In T150099#2790474, @Kotz wrote:

Is there a way I can get the same env as jsub on the login server or in a more or less interactive shell?

You can try qlogin, but I'm not sure if the environment will be the same as in a regular jsub.

qlogin and qrsh work OK too.

I can actually do

qrsh -l release=trusty mono BotHasava.exe

and this works quite reliably. Is it acceptable to use qrsh instead of jsub this way?

No, this does not work reliably. Sometimes it asks for key verifications. Also I understand it would not work with cron (only jsub works there). I still need some help here. Does anyone run DotNetWikiBot bot on tools? or mono at all?

maybe @Pengo

@Kotz: What do you mean by "key verifications"? Please always quote error messages verbatim.

@scfc,

>become botsister qrsh -l release=trusty  pwd
Host key verification failed.

this happens only intermittently. Anyway this is not the major issue for this ticket I think. I need to be able to run by bot via jsub in order to have them scheduled by cron. the "Host key verification" happens with qrsh not jsub.

The major problem is that the same mono bot works OK from the login or dev ssh and also from qrsh and qlogin, but fails with jsub.

thanks

qacct -j 139995 shows that maxvmem registered for that job was 457.445 MBytes. While exit_status is 1 and IIRC it would be some larger value for out-of-memory failures, maxvmem is "close" to the default memory allocation of 512 MBytes (cf. https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Tool_Labs/Grid#Allocating_additional_memory). So the error could be an artefact of the job not being able to allocate enough memory.

I would try using jsub -l release=trusty -mem 1g -N hasava mono BotHasava.exe /d to see if that makes a difference.

@scfc thanks this did the trick for BotHasava :-)