Re: [HTCondor-users] easiest way for an user to override schedd configuration?

[jcaballero.hep@xxxxxxxxx]

El lun., 23 mar. 2020 a las 16:05, Todd L Miller
(<tlmiller@xxxxxxxxxxx>) escribiÃ:
>
> > 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
>


Hi

I will try to answer again. Yesterday, my message was blocked.

First, using ~/.condor/user_config worked.
We have a piece of configuration in one schedd that is preventing
users from submitting jobs, so I wanted to play with that variable,
but as an unprivileged account, not as root.
And here is the problem [1], in case someone has any tip, before I
open a ticket as suggested.
Indeed, I managed to submit a job by changing that variable a little
bit in my local file [2]. However, it is not resolved in the classad
[3]. Is that expected? Or that means it is still not being set
properly?

Cheers,
Jose


[1]
$ rpm -qa | grep condor
condor-8.6.13-1.el7.x86_64
condor-classads-8.6.13-1.el7.x86_64
condor-external-libs-8.6.13-1.el7.x86_64
condor-python-8.6.13-1.el7.x86_64
condor-procd-8.6.13-1.el7.x86_64
condor-classads-blah-patch-0.0.1-1.el7.centos.x86_64


$ condor_submit test.jdl
ERROR: Parse error in expression:
MachineScalingFactor = $$([ifThenElse(isUndefined(ScalingFactor),
1.00, ScalingFactor)])
Error in config file SUBMIT_ATTRS or SUBMIT_EXPRS value. Aborting submit.


$ condor_config_val -dump | grep ScalingFactor
MachineScalingFactor = $$([ifThenElse(isUndefined(ScalingFactor),1.00,
ScalingFactor)])
SUBMIT_EXPRS =  MachineScalingFactor,JobLeaseDuration


[2]
$ cat ~/.condor/user_config
MachineScalingFactor = ifThenElse(isUndefined(ScalingFactor), 1.00,
ScalingFactor)

[3]
$ condor_q -l 1.0 | grep ScalingFactor
MachineScalingFactor = ifThenElse(isUndefined(ScalingFactor),1.0,ScalingFactor)