Re: [Condor-users] Log file with ClusterId in the name creates two files

[Greg Langmead <glangmead@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Worked like a charm for me too! And also when run from a dag. This way, in the most common case where jobs succeed and no .error is written twice, people wanting to read the .error file just type job.e and tab-completing will pick up the rest. Thank you!

On Mar 5, 2010, at 11:17 AM, R. Kent Wenger wrote:

> On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Greg Langmead wrote:
> 
>> I am using a trick I learned on this mailing list in my condor submit files:
>> 
>> error = ./job/job.error.$$([ClusterId])
>> 
>> so that if users run into errors and resubmit the job, I can still look 
>> at the old stderr data to do a post-mortem. It works great! Except...
>> 
>> there are always TWO files written:
>> 
>> job/job.error.$$([ClusterId])
>> job/job.error.12345
>> 
>> The second one has the actual stderr data, the first one is empty. One 
>> of the condor daemons is "touching" the first one before the job has an 
>> ID. Does anyone know a way to stop this from happening, or knows of a 
>> better way to do what I'm trying to do? It happens whether I submit the 
>> job with condor_submit, or whether it gets submitted as part of 
>> condor_submit_dag.
> 
> I just tried this:
> 
>   error = job.error.$(cluster)
> 
> and I only get one file.
> 
> Kent Wenger
> Condor Team
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