Re: [Condor-users] condor 6.7.10 cleaning the EXECUTE directory

[Jaime Frey <jfrey@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 1, 2005, at 8:24 AM, Horvatth Szabolcs wrote:

> Using Condor 6.7.10 on windows I found the following: condor  
> sometimes deletes the content
> of the directory defined by the EXECUTE expression and not just the  
> job directories.
> I set the execute dir to a temp directory, but this folder also  
> contains some computation specific data
> , so when this directory is cleaned my data that is to be used by  
> the job is removed too.
>
> It surely happens when the condor service is restarted but happened  
> a few times when there was
> no system restart or condor_on/off/restart.

Condor assumes its EXECUTE directory is solely for its use. It will  
periodically clean the directory of anything it thinks shouldn't be  
there. You should set EXECUTE to a directory that's not used for  
anything else.

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