Exit codes

Exit code	Meaning	Applies to subcommand
0	Success	All
1	Error in query sequence(s), BLAST options, or ElasticBLAST configuration	Submit
2	Error in BLAST database	Submit
5	Timeout	Submit
6	Error creating output files	Submit, status
7	Missing required dependency or cloud vendor limit exceeded	All
8	Error communicating with the cluster	All
9	Operation interrupted	All
255	Unknown error	All

Exit codes for elastic-blast status –exit-code

When using the --exit-code option to elastic-blast status, the application exit code changes to report the status of the ElasticBLAST search in question. The exit code values have the following meanings:

Exit code	Meaning
0	ElasticBLAST has completed its search successfully
1	ElasticBLAST has failed
2	Cloud resources for ElasticBLAST are being created/allocated
3	ElasticBLAST jobs are being submitted to the cloud
4	ElasticBLAST jobs are running
5	ElasticBLAST resources are being deleted
6	An unknown error has occurred