Re: [Condor-users] DAGMan post scripts and ${RETURN}

[Kipp Cannon <kipp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Peter F. Couvares wrote:

> Kipp Cannon wrote:
> > The Condor user's manual claims that DAGMan will pass the return code 
> > from
> > the executable in a DAG node to the post script in that node through a
> > variable called ${RETURN}.  Can someone confirm if this claim is 
> > correct?
> > ${RETURN} appears to be unset in the post scripts I'm working with...
> 
> Kipp,
> 
> Just to be clear, DAGMan doesn't set an environment variable named 
> RETURN (though that's not a bad idea).  Instead, DAGMan will pass the 
> job's return code as an argument to your post script if you've 
> specified $RETURN as an argument to your script in the DAG 
> specification file.  E.g.:
> 
>    Job NodeFoo foo.sub
>    Script Post NodeFoo postscript.sh foo bar $RETURN
> 
> Or is that what you're doing already?

OOooohhh.... No, that's not what I was doing.  I had gotten the impression
that the post script would be run with a variable RETURN set in its
environment.  I'll make the change and see how it goes.  Thanks.

							-Kipp