Re: [HTCondor-users] Job TMP environment variable

[Todd Tannenbaum <tannenba@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/22/2020 6:14 AM, Petr Vokac wrote:

MOUNT_UNDER_SCRATCH is exactly the reason why I would like to have all TMP variants pointing to /tmp. It seems to me HTCondor always set these environment variables to the job working directory

    Hi Petr,
    
    Could you help me understand the motivation for wanting TMP to go to
    /tmp ?
    
    My guess is that it is not really related to MOUNT_UNDER_SCRATCH,
    but that you want all the job's temporary files in a subdirectory of
    the _CONDOR_SCRATCH_DIR so that they will not get automatically
    included in transfer_output_files.  It just so happens that
    MOUNT_UNDER_SCRATCH does this (makes a subdirectory for tmp files in
    the scratch dir).  Is my guess correct or is there some other
    motivation I have overlooked?
    
    Thanks and happy (almost) holidays,
    regards,
    Todd