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

[Dan Bradley <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andrey,

I am embarrassed to have delayed the fix I promised you in 6.7.9 until 
now.  The 6.7.15 release contains a full solution to the problem of 
specifying environment values when doing cross-platform submission 
(e.g. you can submit from unix to windows and still have semicolons in 
your 'path' environment value).  The new syntax is platform independent 
and the delimiters (spaces) may be quoted, so you can still insert them 
into environment values if you need to.

--Dan

On Jun 17, 2005, at 9:31 AM, Dan Bradley wrote:

> Andrey Kaliazin wrote:
>
> > Thanks Dan,
> >
> > I guess I have to go back to 6.6.9 and wait until those changes make 
> > way
> > into release. Will it be 6.7.9 or the next one?
>
> Even if the full solution is not available, I will make sure there is 
> at least a workaround solution for 6.7.9.
>
> > Am I right to assume that the upcoming 6.6.10 will keep the old style
> > behaviour in this case?
> Yes.
>
> --Dan
>
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: condor-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx 
> > > [mailto:condor-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dan Bradley
> > > Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 11:11 PM
> > > To: Condor-Users Mail List
> > > Subject: Re: [Condor-users] Environment problems in submit files
> > >
> > > 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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