Re: [Condor-users] Testing for file existance before scheduling a job

["Matt Hope" <matthew.hope@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 7, 2008 9:07 PM, Rob Sherwood <capveg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This should be a FAQ-style question (I'm fairly new to condor,
> apologies), but I've been unable to find an answer for it with web
> searches and FAQ listings.  I'm running in the vanilla universe, and
> want to limit the set of machines my job can be scheduled onto to the
> ones where a certain file exists.
>
> Can anyone suggest a straight forward way to accomplish this?

Advertise in the Startd's ClassAd the existence (or otherwise of the
file) something like

HasTheFlibbleFile = True
HasTheFlibbleFile = False

Then in your job submission file include in the requirementes

HasTheFlibbleFile == True

Obviously this is not automated, if you prefer that you can look at
things like Hawkeye to automate the setting of the attribute but the
basic principle remains the same...

Matt