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Manuel Campomanes
Manuel Campomanes

Reputation: 145

Torque qsub : Change the ouput/error file destination doesn't work

If I did : qsub myscript.sh Then it creates in the script path: myscript.sh.e12 and myscript.sh.o12 files.

But if I do : qsub -o /tmp/my.out myscript.sh Then there is nothing in /tmp and in the script path only the myscript.sh.e12 file.

The output file is lost during the move. I don't know why. I also tried with #PBS -o in pbs file but same result.

Thanks for your help.

Torque 2.5.7 RHEL 6.2

Upvotes: 0

Views: 625

Answers (1)

TomRoche
TomRoche

Reputation: 1524

short answer: don't write output to /tmp/, write to some space you own, preferably with a unique path.

long answer: /tmp/ is ambiguous. Remember: the whole point of using a distributed resource manager is to run a job over multiple, or at least multiply assignable, compute resources. But each such device will almost certainly have its own /tmp/, and

  • you have no way of knowing to which one your job was written
  • you may have no rights on the arbitrary_device:/tmp/ on which one your job was written

So don't write output to /tmp/.

Upvotes: 2

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