Re: [Condor-users] condor-administrators

[Jaime Frey <jfrey@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Dec 24, 2005, at 6:34 AM, Maxim Kovgan wrote:

> > > 2. User Environment.
> > > I wonder if there is a way to force users to have a special
> > > Environment,
> > > inspite the user's will to define "Env = bla=blabla; etc." in the
> > > submission file.
> > > Is this possible at all ?
> > > According to the manual - no.
> > > (STARTER_* variables can be overridden by users in  the submit  
> > > file )
> > >
> > > Note, I have read the related parts from the manual, but experiments
> > > showed something is wrong.
> >
> > One way to do this is to use the USER_JOB_WRAPPER (see the manual for
> > details).
>
> I am using this wrapper and it has this inside:
>
> #!/bin/sh --login
> source /etc/profile
> exec "$@"
>
> Hm... I've added the 2nd line as a resort. Is this an 'overkill' ?
> and still the q. is: If I run jobs via this wrapper, will the user's
> submission file still have the last word ?

The user's submit description file determines what environment  
variables will be set when the job wrapper script is run. The script  
can change the environment however it wants before executing the job  
and will have the last word.

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