[Condor-users] How can I return nothing but stdout/stderr?

["Ross, Jason" <jason.ross@xxxxxxxxx>]

I’ve got a family of Condor tasks whose work is to write stuff to a network drive.

These jobs create a bunch of intermediate results in the local execute directory as they run, and I really don’t want any of that stuff returned.

Just getting stdout and stderr back is sufficient.

 

Workaround ideas:

 

1) I could move all my intermediate steps to a new temp dir, different from the Condor execute directory.

2) I could delete all my intermediate files from the execute directory before exiting.

3) I could create a “pointlessmandatoryoutput.out” file in my execute directory, and specify that Condor only return that, using transfer_output_files.

[This is the one I’ve been doing, but now I’m getting shadow exceptions that Condor can’t return that file – maybe it’s not getting created quickly enough?]

 

But all these seem unnecessary.

What I’d really like is to be able to set transfer_output_files to blank.

 

transfer_output_files =

 

doesn’t work.

 

Does Condor have a clean mechanism for returning only stdout and stderr?  Or am I stuck with my workaround options?

 

Thanks!
- Jason

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