bsub change

[Edwin S. Russell]

In a previous version of the batch submission script, bsub, it was
announced that certain validity checks were being made on the -o
(output file specification) parameter to reduce the number of jobs
that are unable to write their output to the specified location.
One of those validity checks was to check for "local" directories --
i.e. directories which are not in AFS or NFS and which appear to
be on a disk local to a given machine. Since such directories do
not exist on the machines on which the jobs run a warning was issued
to the user when the job was submitted.

A new version of bsub has now been installed which no longer issues
the warning for this situation but rejects the job instead. The jobs
that we have seen recently which precipitated this warning message
were all errors in specifying the -o parameter. However, if a batch
job is now rejected because of an output file specification which
you believe should be acceptable, please report it to unix-admin in
the usual way.

The message that now comes out when the job is not accepted looks
like the following:
esr@sphinx $ bsub -o /foo/bar tokens
ERROR: Local output directory /foo invalid for batch jobs.