Re: [Condor-users] DAGMan post scripts and ${RETURN}

["Peter F. Couvares" <pfc@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kipp Cannon wrote:
> The Condor user's manual claims that DAGMan will pass the return code 
> from
> the executable in a DAG node to the post script in that node through a
> variable called ${RETURN}.  Can someone confirm if this claim is 
> correct?
> ${RETURN} appears to be unset in the post scripts I'm working with...

Kipp,

Just to be clear, DAGMan doesn't set an environment variable named 
RETURN (though that's not a bad idea).  Instead, DAGMan will pass the 
job's return code as an argument to your post script if you've 
specified $RETURN as an argument to your script in the DAG 
specification file.  E.g.:

  Job NodeFoo foo.sub
  Script Post NodeFoo postscript.sh foo bar $RETURN

Or is that what you're doing already?

Thanks,

-Peter

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