Can I stop slurm from copying a script to execution node

[Thomas Johnson]

I am submitting a job with sbatch /somepath/test.sh

test.sh looks for a config files and other scripts in the same path e.g.
/somepath/
/somepath/ is available to all submit and compute nodes.

but slurm copies the script to /var/lib/slurm-llnl/slurmd/etc/ before
executing it. Thus it test.sh can't find the required config and scripts.

I'm changing over from sge where adding the -b y flag to qsub would stop
sge from copying the script to the execution host.

Is there a similar solution for slurm?

[Eckert, Phil]

If you don’t wish to do the submission from the “somepath” directory you can use the following sbatch option to achieve what you are looking for.

-D, --workdir=<directory>
Set the working directory of the batch script to directory before it is executed.

Phil Eckert
LLNL


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Date: Wednesday, July 9, 2014 at 7:31 PM
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I am submitting a job with sbatch /somepath/test.sh

test.sh looks for a config files and other scripts in the same path e.g. /somepath/
/somepath/ is available to all submit and compute nodes.

but slurm copies the script to /var/lib/slurm-llnl/slurmd/etc/ before executing it. Thus it test.sh can't find the required config and scripts.

I'm changing over from sge where adding the -b y flag to qsub would stop sge from copying the script to the execution host.

Is there a similar solution for slurm?