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sunGrid cluster: qsub error "Unable to run job: hostnames may not be empty string"

I'm submitting jobs to sunGrid cluster, and I want my log file to have it's start time as its name. For that I used the next command:

qsub -j y -o job_`date "+%Y_%m_%d_%H:%M"`.log job.sh

But I got the next error message:

Unable to read script file because of error: ERROR! invalid option argument "-f"

I didn't find a "-f" in my script, so I tried to replace the date execution to the current date:

qsub -j y -o job_2014_10_23_16:36.log job.sh

But, then I got the next error:

Unable to run job: hostnames may not be empty string.

What can it be?

Solution

  • I finally found that the error was using a colon in the output file name, so it was looking for a hostname:option argument. Replacing the colon with another character (e.g. underscore) fixed it:

    qsub -j y -o job_2014_10_23_16_36.log job.sh

    Great!