Re: [Condor-users] running a perl/script app using condor...

[Alain Roy <roy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> in looking through the condor_submit/job submit section of the docs, it
> refers to providing condor the 'exe' name. however, i'm trying to figure out
> how i'd go about providing the name of the perl app/perl command to run the
> perl script on a machine.
>
> example:
>
> i type [foo]#perl foo.pl
>
> how would i submit 'perl foo.pl' to condor in the submit file.

Bruce,

Have you read the Section 2.5 of the Condor Manual? It has a bunch of 
example job submissions:

http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/manual/v6.6/2_5Submitting_Job.html

It's likely that you have perl pre-installed on all of your computers, 
since most Linux installations have perl installed. Therefore, you can do 
something like this if you have a shared file system:

universe = vanilla
executable = /usr/bin/perl
transfer_executable = false
arguments = foo.pl
output = foo.output
error = foo.error
queue

If you don't have a shared filesystem:

universe = vanilla
executable = /usr/bin/perl
transfer_executable = false
arguments = foo.pl
output = foo.output
error = foo.error
should_transfer_files = yes
when_to_transfer_output = ON_EXIT
queue

> also, i was under the impression that i could setup nfs for condor to allow
> the inpput perl scripts to be read from an nfs dir, as well as to have
> output files written to a nfs share. however, i can't seem to find a
> refernece that explains/demonstrates how to accomplish this...

The Condor manual does not explain how to set up NFS. I'm no expert with 
NFS, but a quick Google search found this:

http://nfs.sourceforge.net/

Section 2.5.3 explains how to submit jobs when you have a shared filesystem.
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/manual/v6.6/2_5Submitting_Job.html#SECTION00353000000000000000

-alain