I have been using this before and it worked as I seem to remember but in the actual setup I try to read some classadds from the localhost usingcondor_status slot1@`hostname` -af blablaAnd sometimes it seems to work but most of the times it does not - is there a more clever way to [g]ather some classadds from the startd/host ?
To be clear, this is reading ads _about_ the local host, not _from_ the local host -- condor_status will talk to the collector unless you specifically instruct it otherwise. You can use the -direct option to specify a daemon to talk to without going through the collector to find it. On many EPs, there will be a .startd_address file in HTCondor's LOG directory whose first line can be passed to -direct (if the hostname doesn't work).
-- ToddM