[Condor-users] "." (dot) is no longer allowed to be part of STARTD_NAME or MASTER_NAME in 7.8

[Yu Huang <polyactis@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi ,

I recently did an upgrade from 7.7.2 to 7.8.1. and I ran several condor_master / condor_startd instances on the same machine (some glidein setup). so i need to differentiate them from each other. previously (7.7.2) I use $hostname.$timestamp as STARTD_NAME /MASTER_NAME. now (7.8.1) i found that is un-acceptable because condor just rejects it and uses the hostname as its value. After I replaced the middle "." with "_" or "\",things become fine. 

This is something that I couldn't find doc online. so someone else might get stuck on the same error.

yu