no matter what kind of "hacky" solution I come up with I can think of a way it breaks and then things get really ugly trying to account for that in the code<br><br>Right now the code is pretty simple and clean. I think I might prefer to have pbs_server have its own spool dir. It just gets messy trying to sort things out with two programs that think they own the file. The hard link idea would work, except for teh case when a job is restarted from the complete state more than once. I'm not sure how to work around that.<br>
<br>While temporarilly having two copies of the spool files in the case where the mother superior and pbs_server are on the same host is not a "good thing", it is looking like it is the cleanest implementation I can come up with right now.<br>
<br>Would it be too terribly bad to go with this for now, just to have it working in this special case, and then try to figure out a way that doesn't require an unnecessary file copy?<br>