[HTCondor-users] DAGMan variable expansion within submit files not working for Initialdir

[Antonio Chay <achay@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Condor users!

Our current production Condor version is 7.8.8 (under Centos 5.9).

I'm trying to use variables within DAGs and submit files as shown at
the end of http://research.cs.wisc.edu/htcondor/manual/v7.8/2_10DAGMan_Applications.html

But, it looks like it's working for "Arguments" but not with
"Initialdir", I'm getting this at my dagman.out:

08/29/13 16:57:09 statfs(/opt/home/mega/test/dir.$(SNAME)/log) failed:
2/No such file or directory
08/29/13 16:57:09 WARNING: can't determine whether log file
/opt/home/mega/test/dir.$(SNAME)/log is on NFS.
08/29/13 16:57:09 DAGMan::Job:8001:ERROR: Unable to monitor log file
for node A|ReadMultipleUserLogs:9004:Error getting file ID in
monitorLogFile()|ReadMultipleUserLogs:9004:Error initializing log file
/opt/home/mega/test/dir.$(SNAME)/log|MultiLogFiles:9001:Error (2, No
such file or directory) opening file
/opt/home/mega/test/dir.$(SNAME)/log for creation or truncation
08/29/13 16:57:09 ERROR "Fatal log file monitoring error!

My dag file is:
# test1.dag
JOB A template1.condor
VARS A SNAME="1"

And my submit file:
# template1.condor
Notification = Never
Universe   = vanilla
Executable = /bin/bash
request_memory = 1 GB
request_cpus = 1
Log        = log
Output     = out
Error      = err
should_transfer_files = YES
Environment = "HELLO='HELLO WORLD'"
Arguments  = "-c 'echo ""$(SNAME)""; exit ""$(SNAME)""'"
Initialdir = dir.$(SNAME)
Queue

I've tried with "Initialdir = dir.1" (hard coded), and the job run as
expected (in this case, echoing 1, and marking/creating the rescue job
as expected).

What should I do to enable variable expansion for "Initialdir" ?

Regards and thanks in advance.
Antonio.