#552: parameter file errors ---------------------+------------------------------------------------------ Reporter: knarf | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: minor | Milestone: ET_2011_11 Component: Cactus | Version: Resolution: | Keywords: ---------------------+------------------------------------------------------
Comment (by eschnett):
Cactus has three levels of parameter checking -- strict, normal, and relaxed. Since this level needs to be chosen before the parameter file is parsed, it is a command line option. A while ago we changed the default to "strict" because the other options turned out to be confusing, and thus were stealing queue-time from users.
If you set your parameter checking level to "normal", you can set parameters twice to the same value without aborting the simulation.
I assume you will want to define a new level between "strict" and "normal", or change the behaviour of "normal" to disallow certain things that are currently allowed.