Re: [HTCondor-users] setting TMPDIR to something an individual job wants

[Greg Thain <gthain@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 5/18/22 15:52, Lee Damon wrote:
> I have a co-worker who is trying to get some R stuff working in 
> condor. He needs to set TMPDIR to a much larger directory than is 
> usually used because... R. He's trying to set this up to hand off to a 
> bunch of users so having it work automagically for them is Highly 
> Desireable.
>
> Right now HTcondor overrides his TMPDIR setting and as a result /var 
> is hitting 100% and then bad things happen.


Condor sets TMPDIR to point into the per-jop scratch directory. This 
guarantees that any files written to $TMPDIR are cleaned up by condor 
when the job exits. If there is a partition on the local machine with 
more space than wherever the EXECUTE directory is pointing at, perhaps 
that could be the new EXECUTE directory, where the scratch dirs are created?

Otherwise, the only other way to override the setting of TMPDIR would be 
with a USER_JOB_WRAPPER script.

-greg