*** Dirk Meier wrote : > > > Hi, > > I want to run root as a batch job. > For that I need to give several macros to root like in the following > command line (initialization, running and quit root again): > > my_root .x Initialization.C .x Run.C .q > > unfortunately this syntax seems not to work. > > Later I need to pass this command to the Load Sharing Facilty (LSF) on > an atlas machine at cern. Does anybody has experience using it (or any > other batch facility with root)? > > > merci > Dirk Meier > > > > > Hi Dirk, I think a more appropriate way to run a root batch job is to to the following (at least I am happy with it) : * make a (shell) script which you will submit to the batch system and put in this (shell) script the following line root -b -q run.cc * Define in your (shell) script the following code for run.cc (or put the run.cc somewhere in a directory which is seen by the batch system). void run() { gSystem->Load("lib1.dll"); gSystem->Load("lib2.dll"); // just load all the libs you need gROOT->LoadMacro("mac1.cc"); gROOT->LoadMacro("mac1.cc"); // just load all the macros you need ..... // just invoke here your the program you want to run } That will do what you want and provides you all the flexibility. Note that compiled code runs faster than interpreted macros, so it is better to make a lib out of your macros first and load that one instead of the macros themselves. Cheers, _/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ *----------------------------------------------------------------------* Dr. Nick van Eijndhoven Department of Subatomic Physics email : nick@fys.ruu.nl Utrecht University / NIKHEF tel. +31-30-2532331 (direct) P.O. Box 80.000 tel. +31-30-2531492 (secr.) NL-3508 TA Utrecht fax. +31-30-2518689 The Netherlands WWW : http://www.fys.ruu.nl/~nick Office : Ornstein lab. 172 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- tel. +41-22-7679751 (direct) CERN PPE Division / ALICE exp. tel. +41-22-7675857 (secr.) CH-1211 Geneva 23 fax. +41-22-7679480 Switzerland CERN beep : 13+7294 Office : B 160 1-012 *----------------------------------------------------------------------*
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