Re: [Condor-users] Hetergeneous dagman submit woes submit on windows & process on linux

["R. Kent Wenger" <wenger@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 1 Oct 2007, John Wheez wrote:

> 	I'm trying to submit dagman jobs from windows machines and have the 
> jobs be processed on linux machines.
> I can do this with condor_submit. I'm having trouble getting 
> condor_submit_dag to work in this manner though. I use UNC
> paths which mimic the linux paths. I've applied a special windows registry 
> edit to allow UNC paths to be used within the windows shell as well.

You're saying that if you just do a condor_submit on one of your node job
submit files it works, right?

> Have you been able to do the above? Any special notes or tips?

Hmm, I've never actually tried this.  I can't think of any fundamental
reason it shouldn't be possible to make it work, though.

One thing to remember about this is that the condor_dagman process itself
will run on the machine on which you run condor_subumit_dag, in this
case the Windows machine.

You could try manually editing the .condor.sub file and changing the
Unix slashes to Windows slashes in all of the arguments.  I kind of doubt
that this is the problem, though.

> I notice condor_submit_dag automatically translates
> the windows slashes ("\") in to unix slashes ("/").  Since the job is 
> submitted from windows would the unix slashes confuse the
> windows condor_submit_dag?

At least most of the time on Windows, it seems to be okay to use the
forward slashes, but as I noted above it might be worth editing the
.condor.sub file to use backslashes.

Could you please send the following?:
- The entire dagman.out file.
- The submit file for one of the node jobs that failed.
- The user log file for that node job.

Thanks...

Kent Wenger
Condor Team