Re: [Condor-users] bug in environment handling?

[Dan Bradley <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The behavior you describe is the expected behavior, though I agree that 
it would be nice for Condor to support the type of substitution that you 
are trying to do.  The '%' character in an environment value has no 
special meaning to Condor.

--Dan

Grant Goodyear wrote:

> Is there a bug tracking system for condor somewhere that users
> can use to submit bugs?  I couldn't seem to find one.
>
> I'm reposting the meat of a previous post, since I had buried it
> in the middle of an old thread.  Thanks to Matt Hope for his input,
> along with his suggestion that this might be a bug in condor.
>
> Here's the previous post about setting environment variables in
> windows:
>
>
> I would have liked using
>
> environment = "TMP=%_CONDOR_SCRATCH_DIR% TEMP=%_CONDOR_SCRATCH_DIR%"
>
> in the submission file instead of a batch file, but I'm not seeing the
> environment set.
>
> Here's my test case.  Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
>
> testenv.sub
> -----------
>
> Executable = testenv.bat
> Universe   = vanilla
> Output     = testenv.out
> Log        = testenv.log
> Error      = testenv.err
> environment = "TEMP=%_CONDOR_SCRATCH_DIR% TMP=%_CONDOR_SCRATCH_DIR%"
> should_transfer_files = YES
> when_to_transfer_output = ON_EXIT
>
> queue
>
> testenv.bat
> -----------
>
> echo "Should be set by submission file:"
> echo "TMP:  ", %TMP%
> echo "TEMP: ", %TEMP%
> set TMP=%_CONDOR_SCRATCH_DIR%
> set TEMP=%_CONDOR_SCRATCH_DIR%
> echo "Set in batch file:"
> echo "TMP:  ", %TMP%
> echo "TEMP: ", %TEMP%
>
> testenv.out
> -----------
>
> "Should be set by submission file:"
> "TMP:  ", %_CONDOR_SCRATCH_DIR%
> "TEMP: ", %_CONDOR_SCRATCH_DIR%
> "Set in batch file:"
> "TMP:  ", C:\condor\execute\dir_5652
> "TEMP: ", C:\condor\execute\dir_5652
>
>