Hi Matt,
Yes, this is what I used to do with windows but its a bit fiddly finding the proper condor work directory. And with linux its seems even trickier from a windows machine.If you want to get data about a running job and don't want to have that data transferred to the schedd, you might try connecting to the machine where the job is running and looking at the data. condor_q -run x.y will show you where job x.y is running.
Would be cool. Or a chirp command to get the output and errors logs of the executing job.Imagine if there were a way to ssh to a job's environment, that'd be cool.
Cheers, Szabolcs