[Condor-users] Strange condor.boot message and collector not found

[Ian Stokes-Rees <ijstokes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On an execute node, I can run condor_master no problem from the command line, but my init script condor.boot generates an error.  Below is a trace.

# shows that CONDOR_CONFIG is set and points to a file which exists and is not empty
[root@mackenzie condor]# ls -Fla $CONDOR_CONFIG
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 93644 Mar 20  2008 /se/app/shared/condor-7.0.1/etc/condor_config

# shows failed startup script
[root@mackenzie condor]# service condor start
Starting up Condor

Neither the environment variable CONDOR_CONFIG,
/etc/condor/, nor ~condor/ contain a condor_config source.
Either set CONDOR_CONFIG to point to a valid config source,
or put a "condor_config" file in /etc/condor or ~condor/
Exiting.

# shows that condor_master from the command line works
[root@mackenzie sbin]# ./condor_master

[root@nahanni sbin]# ps -ef | grep condor
condor    5990     1  0 17:38 ?        00:00:00 ./condor_master
condor    5991  5990 82 17:38 ?        00:00:02 condor_startd -f

On the "head" node, when I run condor_status I get an error that the collector cannot be found, even though it is running.

[root@abitibi sbin]# condor_status
Error:  Could not fetch ads --- can't find collector

[root@abitibi sbin]# ps -ef | grep condor
condor   28500     1  1 17:45 ?        00:00:00 ./condor_master
condor   28501 28500  0 17:45 ?        00:00:00 condor_collector -f
condor   28503 28500  1 17:45 ?        00:00:00 condor_negotiator -f
condor   28504 28500  1 17:45 ?        00:00:00 condor_schedd -f
condor   28505 28500 86 17:45 ?        00:00:01 condor_startd -f
root     28506 28504  1 17:45 ?        00:00:00 condor_procd -A /tmp/condor-lock.abitibi0.0513363986547155/procd_pipe.SCHEDD -S 60 -C 9422

Any hints as to what might be going wrong would be greatly appreciated.  It seems like very strange behavior.

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