Re: [Condor-users] Condor_submit: how to clean up the files in the remote_initialdir

[Jaime Frey <jfrey@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jun 17, 2005, at 1:46 PM, Helen Zhan wrote:

> I used condor_submit to submit a job to the remote server with  
> tranferring the input files from the submission server to the  
> remote server and transferring output files back from the remote  
> server to the submission server. After job execution, the input and  
> output files remains in the "remote_initialdir" directory on the  
> remote server.
>
> The following is the script that I used for condor_submit:
>
> executable = /home/helen/a.out
> arguments = 1 2 3
> remote_initialdir = /home/helen/
> Transfer_Executable = false
> globusscheduler = hpc2.hpc.ufl.edu/jobmanager-pbs
> universe = globus
> output = $(Process).out
> error = $(Process).err
> log = $(Process).log
> transfer_output_files = aOut.html
> should_transfer_files = YES
> when_to_transfer_output = ON_EXIT
> queue
>
> Does anyone know how to clean up these files after job execution  
> with Condor? If you know if, please kindly suggest.

If you don't define remote_initialdir, Condor will ask Globus to  
create a working directory for the job that Globus will delete after  
the job completes. Condor has no other way to clean up job files on  
the remote host.

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