Re: [HTCondor-users] Unattended install of HTCondor 8.0.5 on Windows: end-of-line issues in condor_config...

["John (TJ) Knoeller" <johnkn@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The problem appears to be that the installer isn't substituting the ALLOW_READ & ALLOW_WRITE lines
in the generic config but is inserting your config at the start of the line instead.
( HTCondor on Windows doesn't care if you use DOS or UNIX style line endings in your config files. )

There is some harm here, but maybe not that serious.  HTCondor config files don't recognize #
as a comment in the middle of the line. you end up with an ALLOW_READ list containing

215.145.0.0/16#ALLOW_READ
=
*.your.domain
*.cs.wisc.edu

I'm pretty sure that 215.145.0.0/16#ALLOW_READ behaves the same as 215.145.0.0/16, so this
bug is going to add bogus things to your allow list, but it won't prevent HTCondor from running.

This is definitely a bug in the MSI installer.  I have added a ticket to a bug tracking system for this
https://htcondor-wiki.cs.wisc.edu/index.cgi/tktview?tn=420

-tj

On 2/4/2014 4:07 AM, Stub wrote:

Hi,

I do the unattended install, according to the HTCondor manual; something like this:

set MSI="condor-8.0.5-212140-Windows-x86.msi"

set ARGS=

set ARGS=NEWPOOL="N"

set ARGS=%ARGS% POOLNAME="Library"

set ARGS=%ARGS% RUNJOBS="C"

set ARGS=%ARGS% VACATEJOBS="Y"

set ARGS=%ARGS% SUBMITJOBS="N"

set ARGS=%ARGS% CONDOREMAIL=""

set ARGS=%ARGS% SMTPSERVER=""

set ARGS=%ARGS% HOSTALLOWREAD="215.145.0.0/16"

set ARGS=%ARGS% HOSTALLOWWRITE="215.145.0.0/16"

.....[etc. etc.]

msiexec /qn /norestart /l*v condor-install-log.txt /i %MSI% %ARGS%

Then I see in the file C:\condor\condor_config  things like this:

ALLOW_READ=215.145.0.0/16#ALLOW_READ = *.your.domain, *.cs.wisc.edu

and

ALLOW_WRITE=215.145.0.0/16#ALLOW_WRITE = *.your.domain, your-friend's-machine.other.domain

I guess there is a wrong conversion between DOS and Unix line termination.

Can this have any nasty side-effects?

R.L.

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