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I figured I would take a stab at installing and using
Condor. I tried to install both 6.7.8 and 6.6.10 and had no luck with either. The machines I tried to install this on are: Windows 2003 sp1 Domain Controller (made it central
manager) And WindowsXP sp2 (joined to existing pool) I first tried to install 6.7.8. I realize it is a development
release, but it seemed more feature complete. During installation I received 2
dialog box errors. Both had the title “Grepping” and the message
was “Couldn’t find [COLLECTOR_NAME] in [condor_config.local]”
and “Couldn’t find [DAEMON_LIST] in [condor_config.local]”.
Installation continued normally after these 2 errors. I included my subnet to
have read and write permission and used my FQDN for the admin field. After install, I started the Condor service. The install
docs said several services should start, depending on the rolls of the
particular machine. Only the condor_master.exe was running. Restarting the
Condor service would not start the collector process or any other process.
Since I received errors about condor_config.local, I attempted to look at the
file with notepad. The file seems to not be formatted properly. I needed to
use wordwrap to see all of the contents and there were some symbols on every
line (mixed with the actual words). I think it is a unix vs dos format problem.
I also noticed in the condor_config file that the paths for every variable are
using the wrong slash for the path and actually mixing slashes. Instead of c:\condor\bin,
I see c:\condor/bin. Installing on the WindowsXP went more smoothly. I installed
this as a node on an existing pool. No errors popped up; however, I had the
same problem with only the condor_master.exe running. I eventually gave up on the devolopment version and tried
the stable release (6.6.10). It installed fine on both computers; however, I
had the same goofy path problem in my condor_config file but condor_config.local
looked fine. Still, only the condor_master.exe service was running and the
other processes, such as condor_collector would not start. I’m going to try installing this on a Gentoo Linux box
that I have and make it the central manager. Hopefully I will have better luck
on Linux. John Alberts |