Re: [Condor-users] Executable path and environment

["Ian Chesal" <ICHESAL@xxxxxxxxxx>]

How is it in the PATH on the execute node? Is it there because it's part of the environment setup done for jobs run on this machine in the condor_config file for the box? If that's the case you shouldn't need a path to the executable. Just:

 

    executable = generic-launcher

    arguments = appname arg1 arg2 arg3 ...

    transfer_executable = false

 

If the PATH is set as part of the submitting user's login sets (via something like .bash_profile) you could push their environment to the remote machine and again call the executable assuming it's in the path:

 

    getenv = true

    executable = generic-launcher

    arguments = appname arg1 arg2 arg3 ...

    transfer_executable = false

 

Does that help?

 

- Ian

 

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From: condor-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:condor-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ian Stokes-Rees
Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 1:26 PM
To: Condor-Users Mail List
Subject: [Condor-users] Executable path and environment

What is the common technique for creating a classad for a job where the executable location is not known by the submitter, but by prior arrangement the executable is known to be on the worker node in the default path of the user which runs the Condor daemon?

One way would be to do something like:

executable = $ENV(HOME)/bin/generic-launcher
arguments = appname arg1 arg2 arg3 ...

however $ENV(.) resolves the *submitters* environment, rather than the execution nodes environment, and I'm assuming that globbing doesn't take place, so

executable = ~/bin/generic-launcher

wouldn't work.

Cheers,

Ian

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