[drmaa-wg] making a custom file path for output

[Andreas Haas]

Hi Tim,

I fully agree there is a need for this. Please see

   http://forge.gridforum.org/tracker/?aid=805

I raised it's priority to P2. I believe that issue must
be solved with resubitted DRMAA spec.

Regards,
Andreas


On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Tim Harsch wrote:

> I'm sorry I wasn't clear.  I guess the heart of my question is:  How can
> create an arbitrarty template for the file and path name?  Specifically what
> constant tells the DRM to insert job id into that filename template.
>
> Said in Perl psuedo form:
>
> drmaa_set_attribute( $jt,
>         $DRMAA_OUTPUT_PATH +  ":/tmp/my_job_output.$DRMAA_JOB_ID.out" );
>
> # with that code job outputs look like
> /tmp/my_job_output.1.out
> /tmp/my_job_output.2.out
> /tmp/my_job_output.3.out
>
> # without that code job outputs look like
> /home/harsch/script_name.o1
> /home/harsch/script_name.o2
> /home/harsch/script_name.o3
>
> Is there a DRMAA_JOB_ID constant?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rajic, Hrabri" <hrabri.rajic at intel.com>
> To: "DRMAA Working Group" <drmaa-wg at gridforum.org>
> Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 12:02 PM
> Subject: RE: [drmaa-wg] making a custom file path for output
>
>
> There is a simple solution, provided it works for you:
> to rely on the shell to supply the home directory path instead of DRMAA.
>
>     -Hrabri
>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: owner-drmaa-wg at ggf.org [mailto:owner-drmaa-wg at ggf.org] On Behalf
> Of
> >Tim Harsch
> >Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 1:19 PM
> >To: DRMAA Working Group
> >Subject: [drmaa-wg] making a custom file path for output
> >
> >Hi all,
> >    I have a requirement for the app I'm writing ( using
> Schedule::DRMAAc )
> >which I'm trying to implement.
> >
> >Normally the output files from jobs go to home directory and are of the
> >form
> ><jobname>.o<jobid>
> >
> >I want to move the jobs to a subdir in /tmp, but retain the <jobid> in
> the
> >filename.  I tried this:
> >
> >    ( $job_error, $diagnosis ) = drmaa_set_attribute( $jt,
> >        $DRMAA_OUTPUT_PATH,
> >        ":" . $tmpdir . '/' .
> >        __PACKAGE__ .  '.' .
> >       $DRMAA_PLACEHOLDER_INCR .
> >        ".out" );
> >
> >... but PLACEHOLDER is only for parametric jobs, I've been scanning the
> >docs
> >and have not found a placeholder for job id.  Any ideas on how I could
> >accomplish this task?
> >
> >A similar task would be to move the job output path without changing
> the
> >filename format at all.  How could I do that?
>
>