Re: [Condor-users] configure condor with environment vaiables

[Hao Liu <hao.liu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, that is the problem! Thanks to you all. 

Regards,
Hao


On 14 May 2012, at 11:42, Matthew Farrellee wrote:

> You should check your environment and make sure the escaping was correct.
> 
> $ export _CONDOR_START=Owner=="xxx"||Owner=="yyy"
> 06:33:38am> eeyore:~/Documents/CondorInstallation $ echo $_CONDOR_START 
> Owner==xxx
> $ export _CONDOR_START='((Owner == "xxx") || (Owner == "yyy"))' 
> $ echo $_CONDOR_START
> ((Owner == "xxx") || (Owner == "yyy"))
> 
> export with the ''s works for me in my shell.
> 
> You should also figure out why the environment was used to configure condor and evaluate if it is still necessary.
> 
> Best,
> 
> 
> matt
> 
> On 05/14/2012 06:19 AM, Hao Liu wrote:
>> Hi Matt,
>> 
>> Thanks for the explanation. However,
>> export _condor_START=((Owner=="xxx")||(Owner=="yyy")) did Not work, still have the error of "required attribute START is not defined".
>> I also tested export _condor_START=Owner=="xxx"||Owner=="yyy" (note with brackets removed), it could start the daemon, but it did not accept any jobs either from xxx or yyy.
>> 
>> The only two worked fine until now are:
>> export _condor_START=true
>> export _condor_START_owner="xxx"
>> 
>> Any idea? Thanks.
>> 
>> Hao
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 13 May 2012, at 22:18, Matthew Farrellee wrote:
>> 
>>> On 05/13/2012 11:03 AM, Hao Liu wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> My predecessor configured condor by using environment variables, such as
>>>> export _condor_START_owner=${USER}.
>>>> I understand this is to config START expression with owner attribute.
>>>> But how does this work?
>>>> 
>>>> This is only ref I found: "Some Condor tools utilize environment
>>>> variables to set their configuration. These tools search for
>>>> specifically-named environment variables. The variables are prefixed by
>>>> the string_CONDOR_or _condor_. The tools strip off the prefix, and
>>>> utilize what remains as configuration."
>>>> 
>>>> Following the format I made some change, but some worked some did not work:
>>>> 
>>>> export _condor_START=true (work, allow any one to run jobs)
>>>> export _condor_START=((Owner="xxx")||(Owner="yyy")) - doesn't work,
>>>> error "Required attribute "START" is not defined"
>>>> export _condor_START_owner="xxx"||"yyy" - "Required attribute "START" is
>>>> not defined"
>>>> 
>>>> so how to configure condor by environment variables, this prefix suffix way?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Hao
>>> 
>>> Wow, that's a gem. START_owner is a param just as START is. START_owner should probably fade into history, if it hasn't already.
>>> 
>>> 'START_owner = ""xyz""' will generate 'START = Owner == "xyz"', or in your case 'START = Owner == ""xxx"|"yyy""', which has no hope of working. I recommend purging START_owner from your memory.
>>> 
>>> That illustrated the problem though,
>>> 
>>> export _condor_START=((Owner=="xxx")||(Owner=="yyy"))
>>> 
>>> should work. Given the appropriate shell escaping. Note == vs =.
>>> 
>>> You are correct in thinking "_condor_" is the prefix Condor will use to pick up configuration from the environment.
>>> 
>>> Best,
>>> 
>>> 
>>> matt
>> 
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