Re: [Condor-users] Testing email settings

[Alan De Smet <adesmet@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Robin Harrington <robin.harrington@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> there a simple way to cause Condor to send an email to the administrator
> to test the settings?

Toss a random file into your SPOOL, then run "condor_preen
-mail".  Something like this should do the job, assuming a
unix-like system:

su condor
cd `condor_config_val spool`
touch eraseme
condor_preen -mail


This, of course, isn't quite the same as the daemons sending
email.  To test that, all I can recommend is killing a Condor
daemon with SEGV (11) or a similar signal.  condor_master should
notice the death, send email complaining, and restart the dead
process.  The condor_collector or condor_negotiator would make
good sacrificial victims, since Condor recovers from them
restarting quicking.  After that, condor_schedd or condor_startd
would work fine.  condor_master won't work, since it has no
parent to notice and send email.

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Alan De Smet                              Condor Project Research
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