Re: [HTCondor-users] Getting rid of typos in condor_config?

[Todd Tannenbaum <tannenba@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Be aware that in the developer series, we have made a bunch of 
improvements to condor_config_val.  Among them, condor_config_val -dump 
was modified to show values default params as well as params explicitly 
specified in your condor_config files. And the "-dump" command line 
option now works when specifying a remote machine  Another command-line 
option allows condor_config to emit a "minimal" configuration file by 
passing through only values that do not equal defaults - this is 
particularly useful during upgrading, where it is common to want to keep 
any specific modifications made to the config but also inherit any new 
default values.

regards,
Todd

On 11/14/2013 1:49 AM, Steffen Grunewald wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> after several upgrade cycles without touching the configuration,
> I felt it would be about time to re-do the whole thing.
> So I started with the condor_config that comes with the (Debian
> Wheezy) distributed package, and the manual, section 3.3 on my
> desk.
> Soon I found that config macros in the manual are in different
> order (and, IMHO, in a more consistent one) than in the example
> config I was trying to fill in.
> My resolution was to start to write the whole config from scratch,
> only following the manual and the occasional glimpse of my previous
> config.
> After about half of the work, I started to discover typos. No
> wonder, as the whole thing takes several hours to complete, and
> my old eyes get tired quickly.
> Is there a simple way to check for misspelled macro names? I have
> introduced a handful of my own definitions which would clearly be
> flagged as unknown, but that's almost nothing to worry about.
> It's a piece of cake to extract all the used macro names; if there
> was a comprehensive list of macros known to Condor I'd be set.
> Does such a list exist, and if not, how to get one?
>
> - S


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