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

["Todd Tannenbaum" <tannenba@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

or to be a little more specifc re below, the % substitution syntax is specific to the windows cmd.exe shell.  Condor does not exec cmd.exe to start a program unless it is a .bat file.

Cheers
Todd

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-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Bradley <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thursday, May 17, 2007 9:57 am
Subject: Re: [Condor-users] bug in environment handling?
To: Condor-Users Mail List <condor-users@xxxxxxxxxxx>Reply-To: Condor-Users Mail List <condor-users@xxxxxxxxxxx>


>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
>
>>  
>
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