Re: [HTCondor-users] Singularity containers setting --pwd option to scratch dir

[Greg Thain <gthain@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2/8/22 10:25, Mary Hester wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We have some users running singularity containers on a condor cluster 
> (running 8.8.15) and most things seem to work except for setting the 
> directory running the job (--pwd) to the scratch dir (or TMPDIR). The 
> default is for job to run in the user's home directory. Looking at 
> https://htcondor.readthedocs.io/en/latest/admin-manual/singularity-support.html, 
> how can this be changed? 


Mary:

I think this can happen when file transfer is off. If you force file 
transfer on with

should_transfer_files = yes

when_to_transfer_output = on_exit

Do you get the corrrect directory?


-greg