what would be the recommended way for a user to override a given variable in the schedd configuration at submit time? Is still LOCAL_CONFIG_DIR a valid way to point to user specific setup?
The schedd's configuration is not (AFAIK) user-specific, even if it were changed at every submit, so no, not really. Individual users can set configuration in ~/.condor/user_config*, and condor_submit will respect those seetings, but I don't think that will help. What are you trying to accomplish?
- ToddM *: the default value of USER_CONFIG_FILE