Well, theoretically it should work if you set it before importing clearml, but it seems strange to do that in code - what's your use-case?

i tried to add environment right before importing clearml, but it doesn’t work as expected
os.environ['CLEARML_CONFIG_FILE'] = str(Path.home()/f"clearml-{socket.getfqdn()}.conf") from clearml import Task Task.init(project_name="Alfred", task_name="finalized", auto_connect_frameworks={'pytorch': False})

It only works that we set the CLEARML_CONFIG_FILE before script running

i’m setting the environment variable in the python script like this
os.environ['CLEARML_CONFIG_FILE'] = str(Path.home()/f"clearml-{socket.getfqdn()}.conf")then task.init

i just tried, but is still open result on public server.

oh i see, i’m trying it now

To make ClearML SDK load an alternative config file, you need to set the environment variable CLEARML_CONFIG_FILE=<path-to-config-file>

What you're missing, is that the ClearML Agent --config-file switch only tells the ClearML Agent which config file to use, but it won't affect any task running locally with ClearML SDK (only tasks executed by the ClearML Agent with the --config-file switch)

Oh, I see

i only want to use clearml agent to change the conf file

not actually

But are you trying to run the task remotely using the agent?

then i run the second one, it basically outputs the same as just init

when i run this one clearml-agent --config-file ~/clearml-iris.conf it output the help info

i’m not sure if i use the command correctly

before i renamed it, i can log the experiment successfully, i basically add task.init to the python script then just run that script

How exactly did you run the task?

Did you use it to run a task?

OK

but basically i create it by init and rename it

i was trying to copy the content of that file

yes

Hi PompousHawk82 ,
Did the clearml-iris.conf file got created?