[HTCondor-devel] HTCondor 8.0 mis-detecting modified time

[Ben Cotton <ben.cotton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, friends,

It looks like HTCondor 8.0 may have had a bit of a problem with the
time change over the weekend. One of our customers reported a crash of
their Windows (server 2k3 and 2k8) hosts running 8.0.6. The master log
included this line:

03/09/14 03:06:42 C:\Condor\v8.0/bin/condor_master.exe was modified
(1391288078 != 1391284478), restarting
C:\Condor\v8.0/bin/condor_master.exe Gracefully.

It seems like this should have been a non-issue for a while:
https://htcondor-wiki.cs.wisc.edu/index.cgi/tktview?tn=3572 Should I
read "The windows bug no longer exists, so the workaround is now a
bug." to mean that the customer is missing a fairly old patch or is
there still an issue in 8.0?

(The crash itself was due to the fact that condor_master couldn't
restart with "C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /Q /C net stop Condor & net
start Condor" because the service account wasn't set as a local admin.
That's easily worked around.)

Thanks,
BC

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