Re: [Condor-users] Testing on strings and other things

[Erik Paulson <epaulson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 08:41:50AM -0600, Chris Green wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm running a mixed RH7.3 / LTS3 condor pool, and because of the way our 
> users use Condor, I need a way to submit jobs which will only run on one 
> type of system or the other. ARCH or OS aren't fine-grained enough, so I 
> implemented my own config file variable, viz:
> 
> BOONE_GLIBC_VERSION = "2.2"
> 
> or
> 
> BOONE_GLIBC_VERSION = "2.3"
> 
> (note the quotes).
> 
> HOWEVER, if my .cmd file looks like this:
> 
> requirements            = (BOONE_GLIBC_VERSION == "2.2")
> 
> Then condor_q -analyze tells me that nothing matches my requirements, 
> even though I can verify:
> 
> condor_config_val BOONE_GLIBC_VERSION
> "2.2"
> 

Just as a sanity check, you added BOONE_GLIBC_VERSION to 
STARTD_EXPRS, right? 

> Again, note the quotes.
> 
> If I omit the quotes, then the .cmd file says:
> 
> requirements            = (BOONE_GLIBC_VERSION == 2.20000)
> 
> -- not useful.
> 
> What am I doing wrong? I have previously done this with a numeric variable 
> without problems.
> 
> Help!
> 
> On another note, is there any facility within condor to include files 
> within condor_config: with my almost-identical architectures come 
> almost-identical config files which are linked to /home/condor from AFS 
> space:
> 
> /home/condor/condor_config -> 
> /afs/fnal.gov/files/code/e898/code/14/condor-admin/Config/condor_config-Linux+2.4-2.2.5
> 
> or
> 
> /home/condor/condor_config -> 
> /afs/fnal.gov/files/code/e898/code/14/condor-admin/Config/condor_config-Linux+2.4-2.3.2
> 
> as appropriate. I would like to include the bulk of each configuration 
> from a central file since the total diffs between the two files are:
> 
> 58c58
> < RELEASE_DIR           = $(TOP_LEVEL_DIR)/Linux+2.4-2.2.5
> ---
> >RELEASE_DIR           = $(TOP_LEVEL_DIR)/Linux+2.4-2.3.2
> 1493c1493
> < BOONE_GLIBC_VERSION = "2.2"
> ---
> >BOONE_GLIBC_VERSION = "2.3"
> 
> Is there any way to do this?
> 


Can you use AFS @sys links?

-Erik