Re: [Condor-users] Re: NEVER MIND Condor Bug: Condor Status reatins old machine info after changing OS type.

[John Horne <John.Horne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 02:50 -0500, Derek Wright wrote:
> On Tue, 05 Apr 2005 15:11:39 +0100  John Horne wrote:
> 
> > So for an 'execute-only' workstation, just running condor_startd and
> > condor_master, would sending a kill -TERM to condor_master be okay, or
> > should I send it to both the startd and the master? Using 'condor_off'
> > is not possible because the client is logged in as an unpriviledged (?)
> > user.
> 
> SIGTERM to the master is totally equivalent to "condor_off -master".
> in both cases, the master will shutdown all of its children, and then
> exit.  SIGTERM to both the master and the startd is unnecessary, and
> introduces a potential race condition... if the startd manages to exit
> before the master processes the SIGTERM, the master would restart the
> startd (and then kill it again, once it got the SIGTERM).  so, you
> might as well just send SIGTERM to the master.
> 
Many thanks, that answers my question perfectly.


John.

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