Re: [Condor-users] Environment problems in submit files

[Dan Bradley <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andrey,

There was a change in behavior between 6.6.x and 6.7.x with respect to 
environment settings when submitting between unix and windows.  
Basically, you always use the delimiter that is appropriate for the 
_submit_ node and Condor takes care of translating this to the 
appropriate syntax for the execute node when the job description is sent 
there.  As part of the change, there was supposed to be introduced a 
mechanism for escaping delimiters, but this has not made it into a 
release yet.  It was an oversight on my part to let the one change be 
released without providing the other capability.  Sorry about that.

In the mean time, you might be able to take advantage of a new feature 
in 6.7.x (on the execute-node side) that allows you to configure the 
runtime environment of the job.

http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/manual/v6.7/3_3Configuration.html#10674

For example, you should be able to configure it like this in the config 
file that is read by your windows execute machines:

STARTER_JOB_ENVIRONMENT = path=c:\cygwin\bin;c:\windows;c:\windows\system32

--Dan

Andrey Kaliazin wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> We are using Windows XP computing farm with the Linux server and
> some users also find it convenient to submit windows binaries
> from the Linux box. And it used to work just fine until the Linux submit box
>
> was upgraded from 6.6.8 to 6.7.7 version.
> The problem emerged that the following line in submit file - very convenient
>
> way to set up the job environment - 
>
> environment = path=c:\cygwin\bin;c:\windows;c:\windows\system32
>
> - is no longer accepted. The semicolon (;) is treated as a field
> separator character and is not escapable in any standard way I tried.
>
> In the manual it is said indeed, that the (;) is a field separator
> when submitting from UNIX boxes, while windows compute nodes require
> semicolon as a path separator.
>
> Is there any way to insert character (;) into environment variable
> or to tell condor_submit which character to use as a field separator instead
> of
> semicolon?
>
> regards
>
> Andrey Kaliazin
>
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