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The next thing ecFlow will do is create the job file by adding all include files and substituting ecFlow variables (see the next chapter on "The ECFLOW Pre-processor" for more details). To test if ecFlow can find all the include files and variable click the edit button in ecflowview. If you get the error message "send failed for the node" ecFlow may not be able to access the include files or some ecFlow variables have not been set. More details will be given in the ecFlow log files which can also be seen in the "history" when right clicking on an ecFlow server in ecflowview.
Submission of ecflow job file
The next stage is to submit the ecFlow job file. The best way to debug this is to try the submission of the job file on the command line as described by your ECF_JOB_CMD variable. This will usually show up any problems in the job submission process. The script we use to submit our job files also makes visible the job submission output in the ECF_JOBOUT directory.