RE: [Condor-users] Are CONDOR_SCRATCH and EXECUTE directive equal?

[Marco Mambelli <marco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

> > I have a question about the CONDOR_SCRATCH_DIR and the EXECUTE =
> > /my/dir/here options for condor config files.  Are they the same?
> > EXECUTE has to be defined but does CONDOR_SCRATCH_DIR need to be
> > defined?  It not, what does it default to?
>
> EXECUTE is a config file variable that points to, uh, the execute
> directory. :-)
>
> CONDOR_SCRATCH_DIR is an environment variable that's placed (by Condor)
> into the job's environment.  It's intended to give the job a temporary
> directory to play around in.

So the job will start in EXECUTE and have CONDOR_SCRATCH_DIR in its 
environment.
Do you know if these directories are created (and cleaned up after the 
job) by Condor or not?
If not, will Condor fail if these do not exist or will the job be 
responsible to check and eventually create them?

Thanks,
Marco