[HTCondor-users] Configuring Condor 8 on Ubuntu 12.04 (x86_64)

[Chris Resnik <cresnik@xxxxxxx>]

Hi all

I've been trying to install Condor 8.0.0-133173 on Ubuntu 12.04 x86_64.

Outline of the installation
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The host authenticates towards LDAP and the condor user already exists 
but belongs to a different department so I added a condor user to 
/etc/passwd and a condor group to /etc/group

I downloaded condor-8.0.0-133173-ubuntu_12.04_amd64.deb from the 
HTCondor website and installed it via dpkg --install <package>.deb

Condor can be started via "# service condor start" and "ps -ef | grep 
condor" returns:

condor   12364     1  0 14:04 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/condor_master 
-pidfile /var/run/condor/condor.pid
root     12365 12364  0 14:04 ?        00:00:00 condor_procd -A 
/var/run/condor/procd_pipe -L /var/log/condor/ProcLog -R 10000000 -S 60 
-C 333
condor   12366 12364  0 14:04 ?        00:00:00 condor_collector -f
condor   12368 12364  0 14:05 ?        00:00:00 condor_negotiator -f
condor   12369 12364  0 14:05 ?        00:00:00 condor_schedd -f
condor   12370 12364  0 14:05 ?        00:00:00 condor_startd -f
condor   12420 12370 96 14:05 ?        00:00:01 mips

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Issue 1:
Condor seems to be running but condor_status in a terminal returns 
nothing. Is that a problem?
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As far as I understand the documentation, the installation so far has 
installed Condor as working personal Condor

I need to convert this installation to a condor job manager and specify 
a pool available to a number of computers. The documentation says I need 
to run condor_configure.

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Issue 2:
Do I really have to run condor_configure with all the required options 
or can I just copy condor_config from an existing configuration, adapt 
it if necessary and restart condor?
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Issue 3:
The option --install in condor_configure doesn't accept any input. 
Whatever I specify (/usr/lib/ or /usr/bin/ or /usr or /usr/sbin or 
/usr/include) condor_configure returns "Missing release directories" and 
lists directories such as libexec which are not in the same place as 
binaries such condor_q and others.  --install does not accept several 
folders as in PATH.
What value am I supposed to provide?

Furthermore, the help on --install says "if type or "central manager" 
are not specified. Is --install necessary even if I specify type= as 
option to condor_configure?
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Issue 4:
Is --prefix the same as --install-dir ? Are both necessary? Since I've 
never been able to successfully go past the --install option, I wouldn't 
know.
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I've looked at the mailing list archive and googled around quite a bit 
but couldn't find the answers I was looking for.

Any hints are very much appreciated.

Thanks,
Chris

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