[torqueusers] File staging syntax

[André Gemünd]

Hello Ken,

you just need two stagein or stageout files in one line:

[andre at gloria pbs]$ cat pbstest
#!/bin/bash
#PBS -S /bin/bash
#PBS -q local
#PBS -W stagein=foo at gloria.d-grid.scai.fraunhofer.de:/tmp/foo,stagein=foo2 at gloria.d-grid.scai.fraunhofer.de:/tmp/foo2
#PBS -m n
echo "foo"
[andre at gloria pbs]$ qsub pbstest
qsub: illegal -W value

[andre at gloria pbs]$ cat pbstest
#!/bin/bash
#PBS -S /bin/bash
#PBS -q local
#PBS -W stagein=foo at gloria.d-grid.scai.fraunhofer.de:/tmp/foo,foo2 at gloria.d-grid.scai.fraunhofer.de:/tmp/foo2
#PBS -m n
echo "foo"
[andre at gloria pbs]$ qsub pbstest
qsub: illegal -W value

[andre at gloria pbs]$ cat pbstest
#!/bin/bash
#PBS -S /bin/bash
#PBS -q local
#PBS -W stagein=foo at gloria.d-grid.scai.fraunhofer.de:/tmp/foo
#PBS -W stagein=foo2 at gloria.d-grid.scai.fraunhofer.de:/tmp/foo2
#PBS -m n
echo "foo"
[andre at gloria pbs]$ qsub pbstest
435688.tonia.d-grid.scai.fraunhofer.de

So neither the old, nor the new syntax of specifying multiple files per -W works anymore.

gLite CREAM (http://glite.cern.ch/glite-CREAM/) generates these lines with its wrapper script. So this is basically a bug in that software (which is easy to solve), but it would have been nice to be notified of the change. 

Greetings
André

> Andre
> 
> Can you send your qsub or msub line?
> 
> Can you send your script as well?

> > is it possible that the -W syntax changed again between 2.5.5 and
> > 2.5.8? We were using 2.5.5 without problems, but since I upgraded
> > to
> > 2.5.8 yesterday, PBS scripts with more than one file per staging
> > line failed with "illegal -W syntax". I had to change the scripts
> > to
> > use seperate -W lines for every file. I didn't see this in the
> > changelog, or maybe I just missed it?



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André Gemünd
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