Re: [HTCondor-users] Usage of $(HOUR) in submit files

[John M Knoeller <johnkn@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Andreas.

In very old versions of HTCondor, config variables could be $() expanded in submit files, I'm not sure this was ever intended behavior, but in any case it was causing unintended problems and so we changed condor_submit in version 8.4.7 so that $() expansion in submit files will only expand submit variables and commands and not config variables.

That being said,  It would not be hard to add constants like $(HOUR) into the table of build-in submit variables so that this particular trick would continue to work for you.   

Please let me know if you want this and I will open a ticket for the work.

-tj

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From: HTCondor-users <htcondor-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Andreas Haupt <andreas.haupt@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, May 27, 2024 3:12 AM
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Subject: [HTCondor-users] Usage of $(HOUR) in submit files

 

Dear all,

some of our users noticed that with HTCondor-23 (23.0.10 in our case)
variables like $(HOUR) are no longer usable in submit files:

[wgs34] ~/projects/htcondor/jobs % grep Runtime job-simple-with-time.sdl
+RequestRuntime = 10 * $(HOUR)
[wgs34] ~/projects/htcondor/jobs % condor_submit job-simple-with-time.sdl
Submitting job(s)ERROR: Parse error in _expression_:
        RequestRuntime = 10 *


However, variable is still defined:

[wgs34] ~/projects/htcondor/jobs % condor_config_val HOUR
3600

It still works / worked on submission hosts with HTC-10. Is this a
regression? Or a documented behaviour?

Thanks,
Andreas
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