[torqueusers] PBS environmental variables and -V

[Matthew Britt]

Hello everyone.   What is the expected behavior in precedence between PBS environmental variables and -V when a job is submitted  from an interactive job.  With torque 4.1.4 (and possibly earlier), the variables from the environment of the interactive shell are passed along w/ the newly submitted job (either interactive or batch).   We've seen both PBS_O_HOST and PBS_O_WORKDIR be set to values of the first job rather than the attributes of the second job.   

As an example:

[msbritt at nyx ~]$ cd bin
[msbritt at nyx bin]$ pwd
/home/msbritt/bin
[msbritt at nyx bin]$ qsub -I -l nodes=1,walltime=5:00 -q flux -A msbritt_flux -V
qsub: waiting for job 9445802.nyx.engin.umich.edu to start
qsub: job 9445802.nyx.engin.umich.edu ready

[msbritt at nyx5515 ~]$ echo $PBS_O_WORKDIR
/home/msbritt/bin
[msbritt at nyx5515 ~]$ echo $PBS_O_HOST
nyx.engin.umich.edu
[msbritt at nyx5515 ~]$ pwd
/home/msbritt

[msbritt at nyx5515 ~]$ qsub -I -l nodes=1,walltime=5:00 -q flux -A msbritt_flux -V
qsub: waiting for job 9445813.nyx.engin.umich.edu to start
qsub: job 9445813.nyx.engin.umich.edu ready

[msbritt at nyx5623 ~]$ pwd
/home/msbritt
[msbritt at nyx5623 ~]$ echo $PBS_O_WORKDIR
/home/msbritt/bin	(arguably should be /home/msbritt)
[msbritt at nyx5623 ~]$ echo $PBS_O_HOST
nyx.engin.umich.edu	(arguably should be nyx5515)


Should -V not read the PBS_O_* variables on job submission or at least be overwritten and correctly set in the next job, or should -V trump ?

Thanks,
   - Matt
 
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Matthew Britt
CAEN HPC Group - College of Engineering
msbritt at umich.edu