RE: [SPAM] - RE: [condor-users] Output files not being returned upon preemption (transfer_files = ALWAYS) - Email found in subject

["David Vestal" <dvestal@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The creation time looks valid.  I took your suggestion, changing my batch file to:
type nul > begin.flg
dir
dir > dir.txt
sleeper 120
type nul > end.flg

When I vacated the job, none of the three files created (begin.flg, dir.txt, end.flg) were returned, and the condor output file was empty.

When I resubmitted the job and let it run to completion, all files were created and returned normally.

The errors I originally found in the StartLog on the node also appeared upon normal completion, so I suppose those aren't relevant to the problem.  In fact, the only difference I see from the logfiles of the successful and unsuccessful runs are that in the successful run, CONDOR_SHADOW returned 100 instead of 107.

-David

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Silberstein [mailto:marks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 2:21 PM
To: condor-users@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [SPAM] - RE: [condor-users] Output files not being returned
upon preemption (transfer_files = ALWAYS) - Email found in subject


Using transfer_output_files shouldn't help, since it refers to the
transfer after successful execution. 
In any case, using transfer_output_files is _HIGHLY_ discouraged, since
if Condor fails to locate the specified files after the successful
execution, that  will cause it to mistakenly conclude that something is
wrong during transferring them back, which it counts as its own problem,
so it will retry to run the job.
As of Alexander Klyubin's suggestion to put when_to_transfer_output ->
on 6.4.7 it is not supported.
And finally, I would suggest to add "dir" command to your batch file,
and to check that the creation time stamp of your file is correct and is
AFTER Condor starts the job ( look at the creation time of your
execution dir)
I experienced the problem that on windows this timestamp is not updated
when you make a copy old file
Just a thought

On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 19:59, Kewley, J (John) wrote:
> > transfer_input_files = sleeper.exe 
> 
> would setting transfer_output_files help in this case, or is that 
> just for restricting the files that are passed back?
> 
> JK
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