Re: [HTCondor-users] alternative scratch directory?

[Todd Tannenbaum <tannenba@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> On Sep 4, 2016, at 11:12 AM, RAUL H C LOPES <rlopes@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I wonder if it is possible to specify an alternative scratch directory for certain jobs.  I thought, for example,  that I could use +PreCmd to change to a directory different than the default scratch dir, before the job started. However,
> 
> I would like to be able to use this for the parallel universe.
> 
> 
> Thanks, raul

You can certainly specify the initial working directory for the job to be something other than the scratch directory via the submit file macro
   remote_initialdir = /some/path

See the man condor_submit. 

Or did you have something else in mind ?

Regards
Todd

> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> HTCondor-users mailing list
> To unsubscribe, send a message to htcondor-users-request@xxxxxxxxxxx with a
> subject: Unsubscribe
> You can also unsubscribe by visiting
> https://lists.cs.wisc.edu/mailman/listinfo/htcondor-users
> 
> The archives can be found at:
> https://lists.cs.wisc.edu/archive/htcondor-users/