Re: [Condor-users] Absolute and relative paths on Windows.

[Matt Hope <matthew.hope@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 14:59:10 -0000, Sanjay Vivek <smv99r@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>  
> I'm a Condon newbie and I've a question about using absolute and relative
> paths on Windows. Basically, I want to submit a job to Condor but the
> executable and argument files are in different paths. The format of the
> submit file is given below. I've tried various ways of writing the relative
> path with respect to Windows but nothing seems to work. Basically, this
> email is more about how to specify relative and absolute paths when it comes
> to Windows. As shown below, Ifrf.exe is in C:\Program Files\isis\bin while
> combine.ipf is in C:\ENKF\parameter . Once I actually submit the submit
> file, the job just runs forever and doesn't stop. This probably means that
> the executable isn't picking up the argument file, which in this case is
> combine.ipf. Although putting the executable and argument file in the same
> path would have been an easier option, this is not feasible in my case for
> specific reasons. Besides, it shouldn't be too much of a problem specifying
> different paths for the executable and argument files (I hope not anyway!).
> Someone told me that the "../../../" might be messing things up. Any sort of
> help in this matter would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
>  
> executable         = Ifrf.exe
> universe             = vanilla 
> arguments          = ../../../ENKF/parameter/combine.ipf            
> output                = test.out
> error                   = test.error             
> log                     = test.log  
> queue  

I think you may bhe misunderstanding the argumnets parameter.

this specifies the texttual arguments passed to your process on startup.

If you wish this file to be physically transfered as well you need to
do something like

executable         = Ifrf.exe
universe             = vanilla 
transfer_input_files  = ../../../ENKF/parameter/combine.ipf            
arguments         = combine.ipf
output                = test.out
error                   = test.error             
log                     = test.log  
queue 

note the additional transfer_input_files and the removal of the
directory path from the arguments (I'm pretty sure on transfer that
the path structure is flattened but I don't use this functionality
with differing paths so couldn't say for sure...

This should do whatever you need it to.

I would suggest a read of the following would be beneficial:

http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/manual/v6.7/condor_submit.html

Matt