Re: [Condor-users] Mac OS X Boot Startup problems resolved.

[John Wheez <john@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the post!!

I'm using NIS&NFS with my Mac and was having trouble with autostart of 
condor too. I'll post my findings with NIS later on.

JW


Rob Ballantyne wrote:

> I wanted to put this in the record.
>
> The problems I was having getting our Mac's
> to run the Condor daemons at boot was due
> two issues:
>
>   - We are using Apple's OpenDirectory for
>     centralized authentication and authorization
>     (it's Kerberos + OpenLDAP).  The Condor
>     startup script was running before individual
>     systems had 'DirectoryServices' running
>     and able to answer queries.  In particular
>     it had no idea who the user 'condor' was.
>
>   - We are also auto-mounting NFS home
>     directories and again these weren't available
>     at the time the startup was attempted.
>
> We moved the startup of Condor as late as I
> could determine was possible with
> StartupParameters.plist:
>
> > {
> >   Description     = "System Specific configuration";
> >   Provides        = ("Condor");
> >   Requires        = ("Multiuser Login Prompt");
> >   OrderPreference = "last";
> > }
>
>
> This turned out to be insufficent so we also
> stuck a 'sleep 60' in the startup script just
> before starting condor_master.
>
> Hope this helps anyone else depending on Apple's
> new OpenDirectory.
>
>   Cheers,
>
> Rob
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