Cylc install ...any way to install on other path instead of /home

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Yes, cylc install can automatically symlink run-directories to other locations:

That way, we get the best of both worlds: you can store the files anywhere, but Cylc components, and even third party tools, can always find them via the standard install path.

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Thanks a lot, Hilary.
I created global.cylc along with flow.cycl.

$ more global.cylc

[platforms]
 [[localhost]]
    hosts = localhost

[install]
 [[symlink dirs]]
  [[[localhost]]]
   cycl-run = /home/bpabla68/scratch/cylc-run

…I want my cycl-run directory to be created here, but with “cylc install”, it is installing in my /home

Any advice? Thanks.

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Well, for one thing, you’ve misspelled “cylc” as `cycl" there (think of “silk” rather than “cycle”).

However, correcting the spelling won’t help because cylc-run is not a valid config item in that place in the global config file anyway.

If you try to do anything with that in your global config file, it should fail with this error:

ERROR - bad user config /home/oliverh/.cylc/flow/8/global.cylc
IllegalItemError: [install][symlink dirs][localhost]cycl-run

(And similar with corrected spelling).

If you don’t see that error, then you have not installed your global config file in the right place so it’s not even being read by Cylc. Type cylc config (with no args) to parse and print your global configs.

I created global.cylc along with flow.cycl.

That suggests maybe you put your global.cylc in your workflow source directory, along with flow.cylc, which is the wrong location. (Also, spelling again, flow.cycl will not be recognized by Cylc - it’s flow.cylc).

The documentation (link above) says to use run (not cylc-run) to symlink workflow run directories (cylc-run is a level above all workflow run directories; there’s no need to synlink it):

[install]
  [[symlink dirs]]
        [[[localhost]]]
            run = /home/oliverh/scratch/

With the above, every new workflow installed gets its run directory symlinked to the scratch location:

$ pwd
/home/oliverh/cylc-src/bpa

$ cylc install .
INSTALLED bpa/run1 from /home/oliverh/cylc-src/bpa

$ ls -l ~/cylc-run/bpa/
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 2 oliverh oliverh 4096 May 17 14:16 _cylc-install
lrwxrwxrwx 1 oliverh oliverh   39 May 17 14:16 run1 -> /home/oliverh/scratch/cylc-run/bpa/run1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 oliverh oliverh    4 May 17 14:16 runN -> run1