Re: [HTCondor-users] Possible bug using condor_submit?

[Michael V Pelletier <Michael.V.Pelletier@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: John M Knoeller <johnkn@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: HTCondor-Users Mail List <htcondor-users@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 11/24/2015 10:35 AM
> Subject: Re: [HTCondor-users] Possible bug using
condor_submit?
> Sent by: "HTCondor-users" <htcondor-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Yep that a bug.   -append N=5 should behave as if N=5 was right
before the
> (first) Queue statement.
> I have used that technique myself.
> 
> It looks like in 8.4.2 this will work as a prefix, but not using -append.
> 
> [] Cat foo.submit
> output     = out$(Process).txt
> executable = /bin/hostname
> queue $(Num:3)
> 
> []Condor_submit  'Num=5' foo.submit
> Submitting job(s).....
> 5 job(s) submitted to cluster 78.
> 
> -tj

This is an upgrade blocker for at least one of my
pools since the users
leveraged -append quite a bit in order to integrate
with pre-HTCondor
job-construction shell scripts.

    -Michael Pelletier.