[slurm-users] Reset TMPDIR for All Jobs

[Ellestad, Erik]

Woo!

Thanks Marcus, that works.

Though, ahem, SLURM/SchedMD, if you're listening, would it hurt to cover this in the documentation regarding prolog/epilog, and maybe give an example?

https://slurm.schedmd.com/prolog_epilog.html

Just a thought,

Erik

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Erik Ellestad
Wynton Cluster SysAdmin
UCSF


-----Original Message-----
From: slurm-users <slurm-users-bounces at lists.schedmd.com> On Behalf Of Marcus Wagner
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2020 10:08 PM
To: slurm-users at lists.schedmd.com
Subject: Re: [slurm-users] Reset TMPDIR for All Jobs

Hi Erik,

the output of task-prolog is sourced/evaluated (not really sure, how) in 
the job environment.

Thus you don't have to export a variable in task-prolog, but echo the 
export, e.g.

echo export TMPDIR=/scratch/$SLURM_JOB_ID

The variable will then be set in job environment.


Best
Marcus

Am 12.05.2020 um 17:40 schrieb Ellestad, Erik:
> I was wanted to set TMPDIR from /tmp to a per job directory I create in 
> local /scratch/$SLURM_JOB_ID (for example)
> 
> This bug suggests I should be able to do this in a task-prolog.
> 
> https://bugs.schedmd.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2664
> 
> However adding the following to task-prolog doesn’t seem to affect the 
> variables the job script is running with.
> 
> unset TMPDIR
> 
> export TMPDIR=/scratch/$SLURM_JOB_ID
> 
> It does work if it is done in the job script, rather than the task-prolog.
> 
> Am I missing something?
> 
> Erik
> 
> --
> 
> Erik Ellestad
> 
> Wynton Cluster SysAdmin
> 
> UCSF
>