Re: [HTCondor-users] Change interactive job working directory to user home directory

[Jeff Templon <templon@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

The answer Iâm going to give is given within the context of a large (thousands of processor cores) cluster, with home directories on NFS.  Your situation may be different.

In our context, âworking directory = home directoryâ is a very bad idea, as it can lead to thousands of jobs hammering the home directory NFS file system, leading to degradation for all.

This is why we tell our users not to do this unless itâs unavoidable, and when they say itâs unavoidable, we ask them to explain it to us.  Itâs almost never unavoidable :)

JT

On 23 Feb 2025, at 20:50, Rundblom, Glen <rundblom@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello, 

If this question has been answered I apologize, I have not found a solution yet. 

A user of a newly upgraded cluster asked if it was possible to make an interactive job's working directory their home directory. 

Their old cluster ran version 8.8 and their new cluster is running 23.0 and would like to have their home directory as their working directory in an interactive job like it was in version 8.8.

 

Is there a setting to do this?

For now, they are using the command: cd to navigate to their home directory, but they would like the interactive job to just place them there at the start. 

Thank you,

-Glen

 

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