Re: [Condor-users] Are CONDOR_SCRATCH and EXECUTE directive equal?

[Dan Bradley <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jun 23, 2005, at 3:18 PM, Marco Mambelli wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > > I have a question about the CONDOR_SCRATCH_DIR and the EXECUTE =
> > > /my/dir/here options for condor config files.  Are they the same?
> > > EXECUTE has to be defined but does CONDOR_SCRATCH_DIR need to be
> > > defined?  It not, what does it default to?
> >
> > EXECUTE is a config file variable that points to, uh, the execute
> > directory. :-)
> >
> > CONDOR_SCRATCH_DIR is an environment variable that's placed (by 
> > Condor)
> > into the job's environment.  It's intended to give the job a temporary
> > directory to play around in.
>
> So the job will start in EXECUTE and have CONDOR_SCRATCH_DIR in its 
> environment.
> Do you know if these directories are created (and cleaned up after the 
> job) by Condor or not?
> If not, will Condor fail if these do not exist or will the job be 
> responsible to check and eventually create them?


Yes.  Condor creates the scratch directory and cleans it up after the 
job exits.

--Dan