Hi Ben,
There is a bug report on this one at : http://bugzilla.globus.org/
globus/show_bug.cgi?id=1275
Look at the last comment in there; there seems to be a fix, but it
didn't work with an echo command !!
-Dina
On Aug 15, 2007, at 6:06 PM, Keith Thompson wrote:
On Wed 07-08-15 22:12, Ben Clifford wrote:
I am trying to run this:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ globus-job-run grow.cs.uni.edu \
/mnt/nfs/user/worker/app/R-2.5.1/bin/R --vanilla
Error, argument --vanilla : double-dashed option syntax is not
allowed
Syntax : globus-job-run {[-:] <contact string> [-np N]
<executable> [<arg>...]}...Use -help to display
full usage.
Does anyone know a way to make the --vanilla pass through? I've
tried a
few different ways of quoting.
Quoting the argument won't help; a quoted "--" is still a "--",
and the globus-job-run command itself can't tell the difference.
This appears to be a bug. I suggest submitting a bug report via
<http://bugzilla.mcs.anl.gov/globus/>. The check for arguments
starting with "--" should be done only on arguments processed by the
command itself.
I can think of several workarounds.
The check is done in $GLOBUS_LOCATION/libexec/globus-args-parser-
header.
As a workaround, I suppose you could search for the error message
in that script and comment out the three lines. globus-job-run and
other commands would then fail to diagnose some actual errors.
Another possibility is to wrap the "/.../R --vanilla" command in a
script and invoke the script rather than invoking the command
directly.
Or (and this is the easiest approach) you could invoke the command
indirectly via the shell:
globus-job-run grow.cs.uni.edu /bin/sh -c "/.../R --vanilla"
With this command, the arguments seen by the globus-job-run command
are:
"grow.cs.uni.edu"
"/bin/sh"
"-c"
"/.../R --vanilla"
Since none of the arguments start with "--" the error message won't
be triggered. (The shell takes care of parsing the argument and
invoking the "R" command with "--vanilla" as an argument).
--
Keith Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> San Diego Supercomputer Center
<http://users.sdsc.edu/~kst/> 858-822-0853
"We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do
this."
-- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"
