Re: [Condor-users] Environment problems in submit files

["Andrey Kaliazin" <A.Kaliazin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Dan. 

Great news!

btw, is there any easy way to specify in the submit file which
Condor version is required for a job to run?
I know there is CondorVersion variable with content something like
"$CondorVersion: 6.7.12 Sep 24 2005 $"
but it is really cumbersome and to match against.
Wouldn't it be better to introduce separate variables, like
Condor_major = 6.7
Condor_minor = 12

Then you would be able to add to requirements something like
(Condor_minor>14)

cheers,

Andrey

> -----Original Message-----
> From: condor-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:condor-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dan Bradley
> Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 1:40 PM
> To: Condor-Users Mail List
> Subject: Re: [Condor-users] Environment problems in submit files
> 
> Andrey,
> 
> I am embarrassed to have delayed the fix I promised you in 
> 6.7.9 until 
> now.  The 6.7.15 release contains a full solution to the problem of 
> specifying environment values when doing cross-platform submission 
> (e.g. you can submit from unix to windows and still have 
> semicolons in 
> your 'path' environment value).  The new syntax is platform 
> independent 
> and the delimiters (spaces) may be quoted, so you can still 
> insert them 
> into environment values if you need to.
> 
> --Dan
> 
> On Jun 17, 2005, at 9:31 AM, Dan Bradley wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > Andrey Kaliazin wrote:
> >
> >> Thanks Dan,
> >>
> >> I guess I have to go back to 6.6.9 and wait until those 
> changes make 
> >> way
> >> into release. Will it be 6.7.9 or the next one?
> >>
> >
> > Even if the full solution is not available, I will make 
> sure there is 
> > at least a workaround solution for 6.7.9.
> >
> >> Am I right to assume that the upcoming 6.6.10 will keep 
> the old style
> >> behaviour in this case?
> >>
> > Yes.
> >
> > --Dan
> >
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: condor-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx 
> >>> [mailto:condor-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dan Bradley
> >>> Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 11:11 PM
> >>> To: Condor-Users Mail List
> >>> Subject: Re: [Condor-users] Environment problems in submit files
> >>>
> >>> Andrey,
> >>>
> >>> There was a change in behavior between 6.6.x and 6.7.x 
> with respect 
> >>> to environment settings when submitting between unix and 
> windows.  
> >>> Basically, you always use the delimiter that is 
> appropriate for the 
> >>> _submit_ node and Condor takes care of translating this to the 
> >>> appropriate syntax for the execute node when the job 
> description is 
> >>> sent there.  As part of the change, there was supposed to be 
> >>> introduced a mechanism for escaping delimiters, but this has not 
> >>> made it into a release yet.  It was an oversight on my 
> part to let 
> >>> the one change be released without providing the other 
> capability.  
> >>> Sorry about that.
> >>>
> >>> In the mean time, you might be able to take advantage of a new 
> >>> feature in 6.7.x (on the execute-node side) that allows you to 
> >>> configure the runtime environment of the job.
> >>>
> >>> 
> http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/manual/v6.7/3_3Configuration.html#10674
> >>>
> >>> For example, you should be able to configure it like this in the 
> >>> config file that is read by your windows execute machines:
> >>>
> >>> STARTER_JOB_ENVIRONMENT = 
> >>> path=c:\cygwin\bin;c:\windows;c:\windows\system32
> >>>
> >>> --Dan
> >>>
> >>> Andrey Kaliazin wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> Dear all,
> >>>>
> >>>> We are using Windows XP computing farm with the Linux server and
> >>>> some users also find it convenient to submit windows binaries
> >>>>
> >>>> from the Linux box. And it used to work just fine until the
> >>> Linux submit box
> >>>
> >>>> was upgraded from 6.6.8 to 6.7.7 version.
> >>>> The problem emerged that the following line in submit file -
> >>> very convenient
> >>>
> >>>> way to set up the job environment -
> >>>> environment = path=c:\cygwin\bin;c:\windows;c:\windows\system32
> >>>>
> >>>> - is no longer accepted. The semicolon (;) is treated as a field
> >>>> separator character and is not escapable in any standard way I 
> >>>> tried.
> >>>>
> >>>> In the manual it is said indeed, that the (;) is a field 
> separator
> >>>> when submitting from UNIX boxes, while windows compute 
> nodes require
> >>>> semicolon as a path separator.
> >>>>
> >>>> Is there any way to insert character (;) into 
> environment variable
> >>>> or to tell condor_submit which character to use as a field
> >>> separator instead
> >>>
> >>>> of
> >>>> semicolon?
> >>>>
> >>>> regards
> >>>>
> >>>> Andrey Kaliazin
> >>>>
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