[Swift-user] Which OSG directories to use?

[Michael Wilde]

was: Re: first question o'the day

On 6/29/09 10:19 AM, Hodgess, Erin wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> Here is my first question (of many) for today.
> 
> I have a copy of the sites.xml file, which contains the names of the 
> sites and also working directories.
> 
> Please consider the following:
> 
> When I check /bin/pwd on osgce.cs.clemson.edu, I get
> [erin at tp-login2 oops]$ globus-job-run osgce.cs.clemson.edu /bin/pwd
> /home/osg
> 
> So the directory is /home/osg

Thats likely the $HOME directory of the login for your VO (Engage?) on 
that site.
> 
> But when you look at the sites.xml file, it has:
> 
> /export/osg/data/engage/tmp/Clemson-ciTeam
> 
> as the working directory.

I suspect that's either the "$DATA" or "$TMP" directory for that site.

These should be described in some OSG document - maybe googling for 
these will help. Maybe the ENgage VO has some notes about site usage.

> My question is:  which directory should I use, please?

I suggest using sites.xml as its generated, but report any problems you 
find.


- Mike

> 
> Thanks,
> Erin
> 
> 
> 
> Erin M. Hodgess, PhD
> Associate Professor
> Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
> University of Houston - Downtown
> mailto: hodgesse at uhd.edu
>