fix: clearer warning message for low MinAge settings

Author: cmeesters

snakemake_executor_plugin_slurm/__init__.py

@@ -362,9 +362,11 @@ def _validate_status_command_settings(self):
                         self.logger.warning(
                             f"MinJobAge is {min_job_age} seconds "
                             f"(< {dynamic_check_threshold}s). "
-                            f"This may cause 'squeue' to report inaccurate "
-                            "job states and the status_command option may "
-                            "be unreliable. "
+                            f"This may cause 'squeue' to miss recently finished jobs "
+                             "that have been purged from slurmctld, leading to job "
+                             "status queries being impossible with 'squeue'. "
+                             "Consider using 'sacct' instead or let your admini- "
+                             "strator increase MinJobAge. "
                             "(Threshold is 3x status check interval: 3 x "
                             f"{initial_interval}s = "
                             f"{dynamic_check_threshold}s)"