[Condor-users] shared OS file system

[Dave STREET <davey_street@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

HI, 

I have been using condor for a while now and it was all going fine, then we decided to try booting mutiply Debian systems from a single nfs mounted image. 

this all works fine and we can run multiply machines, the issue comes when trying to run Condor, 

I booted one instance of the machine and installed condor and every thing ran fine, joined the pool and was happy enough. 

but booting up a second machine then I got the error message 

/var/run/condor does not exist or is not a directory? 

I can see in the config there is 

LOCAL_DIR

The location of the local Condor directory on each machine in your pool. One common option is to use the condor user's home directory which may be specified with $(TILDE). There is no default value for LOCAL_DIR . For example:

        LOCAL_DIR = $(tilde)

On machines with a shared file system, where either the $(TILDE) directory or another directory you want to use is shared among all machines in your pool, you might use the $(HOSTNAME)macro and have a directory with many subdirectories, one for each machine in your pool, each named by host names. For example:

        LOCAL_DIR = $(tilde)/hosts/$(hostname)

or:

        LOCAL_DIR = $(release_dir)/hosts/$(hostname)

so I have LOCAL_DIR = $(release_dir)/hosts/$(hostname)

Do I need to manually create and populate each directory for each machine, or is 

there a way to get them to auto-create as a new machine joins the pool?

Cheers

Aaron