Re: [Condor-users] config settings using output of command

[Alain Roy <roy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Is it possible to do something like
>
> CONFIG_SETTING = $SHELL(whoami)
>
> to set a configuration variable to the output of a command?  The
> motivating example would be something like
>
> HASPYTHON = $SHELL(which python > /dev/null && echo True || echo False)

You can do something like that, though it isn't quite so direct.

A part of Condor is sometimes called Hawkeye, sometimes called "the cron 
capabilities of Condor". The idea is that you can have Condor run scripts 
for you on a regular basis, and the script outputs attributes that are 
included in the ClassAd of a machine.

This will do exactly what you want. However, because it's a more general 
mechanism, the setup is a bit more complicated.

You can read about it in section 3.3.8 of the Condor 6.6 manual. Look for 
"cron". You should probably ignore STARTD_CRON_NAME for now.

http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/manual/v6.6/3_3Configuration.html#SECTION00438000000000000000

More details about Hawkeye can be found at:

http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/hawkeye/

-alain