[torqueusers] Qsub interactively (-I), Expect and standard output problem

[James J Coyle]

Charles,

  You need  a sequence of send and expect commands, and are missing the
expect right after the spawn.  The expect command is just to wait for 
my tcsh prompt which is just 
'> '

  You can get the same prompt by having set prompt='> '
in your ~/.cshrc file.

  The following script works for me:

#!/usr/bin/expect 
# Submit interactive job
spawn -noecho /usr/local/torque/bin/qsub -I
# Give job some commands
expect -re "\> \n"
send "date; echo 'Hello' \r"
expect -re ".*llo\n"
exit


and gives:

 time ./aae
qsub: waiting for job 121288.hpc4 to start
qsub: job 121288.hpc4 ready

> date; echo 'Hello' 
Thu Jun 26 09:56:30 CDT 2008
Hello
> 0.000u 0.001s 0:19.33 0.0%    0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w


There seems to be about a 20 second overhead on my system when
using expect and qsub -I , 10 sec. on the way in and 10 sec. 
on the way out.

-- 
 James Coyle, PhD
 SGI Origin, Alpha, Xeon and Opteron Cluster Manager
 High Performance Computing Group     
 Iowa State Univ.          
 Ames, Iowa 50011           web: http://jjc.public.iastate.edu

> Hi,
> 
> I would like to be able to use "qsub -I" in a script. In this script, I want 
> to have the standard output of the job.
> 
> I started with an Expect script:
> 
> #!/usr/bin/expect -f
> # Submit interactive job
> spawn -noecho /usr/local/torque/bin/qsub -I
> # Give job some commands
> send "date\r"
> send "echo \"Hello\"\r"
> expect -re ".*llo"
> send_user "B$expect_out(buffer)E\n"
> send "exit\r"
> # Wait for qsub exit
> wait
> # Quit
> exit
> 
> But the output is:
> date
> echo "Hello"
> Bdate
> echo "HelloE
> 
> I get my commands back but not their results. Do you have any idea to explain 
> this behaviour ? Any solution(s) ?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Charles
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