Re: [HTCondor-users] startd_cron argument formatting

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: HTCondor-users [mailto:htcondor-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of John M Knoeller
> 
> the ARGS for a STARTD_CRON are parsed in the same was as ARGS are in a
> submit file, so starting args with a double quote will cause it to preserve
> spaces, and to convert each "" into a single "
> 
> condor_config_val doesn't understand that, it will just show what is in the
> config file, but condor_config_val doesn't parse anything, the parsing
> happens in the code that constructs the system call to run the cron job, and
> that code uses the same library to parse the args that condor_submit does.

Ah, splendid! I guess I should have actually tried it! Thanks for the clarification!

	-Michael Pelletier.