# What does it mean for the cluster to return "qsub: use proper select statement"

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-does-it-mean-for-the-cluster-to-return-qsub-use-proper-select-statement/77339>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Created:** [March 3, 2022, 5:22am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-does-it-mean-for-the-cluster-to-return-qsub-use-proper-select-statement/77339 "2022-03-03T05:22:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![pafloxy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/pafloxy/32/28694_2.png) [@pafloxy](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/pafloxy)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2022, 5:22am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-does-it-mean-for-the-cluster-to-return-qsub-use-proper-select-statement/77339/1 "2022-03-03T05:22:48Z")

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I was trying to run a simple helloworld program in julia on HPC, using PBS script submission but it ended with followoing message ~~  
`qsub: use proper select statement`

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**Author:** ![johnh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/johnh/32/3615_2.png) [@johnh](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/johnh)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2022, 7:11am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-does-it-mean-for-the-cluster-to-return-qsub-use-proper-select-statement/77339/2 "2022-03-03T07:11:04Z")

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qsub is the command used to submit a job to the PBS queue system.  
Can you give some more information please - a minimum working example?

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**Author:** ![pafloxy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/pafloxy/32/28694_2.png) [@pafloxy](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/pafloxy)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2022, 2:13pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-does-it-mean-for-the-cluster-to-return-qsub-use-proper-select-statement/77339/3 "2022-03-03T14:13:30Z")

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Hey thanks for your support! but II think i have been able to resolve the issue by myself! ptobabbly the issue was with specifying the working directory of PBS

regards