Re: [HTCondor-users] condor_reconfig let the SCHEDD die silently

[Michael V Pelletier <Michael.V.Pelletier@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: "Beyer, Christoph" <christoph.beyer@xxxxxxx>
> To: htcondor-users <htcondor-users@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 05/03/2016 06:22 AM
> Subject: [HTCondor-users] condor_reconfig let
the SCHEDD die silently
> Sent by: "HTCondor-users" <htcondor-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I just experienced on 8.4.5 that the SCHEDD dies silently after a
> condor_reconfig. In the logs I found: 
> 
> 05/02/16 13:13:53 (pid:2886435) ERROR "Invalid _expression_ for
> EVENT_LOG_MAX_SIZE (1000mb) in condor configuration.  Please
set it to an 
> integer _expression_ in the range -2147483648 to 2147483647 (default
> 1000000)." at line 2237 in file /slots/01/dir_51363/userdir/.tmp57QERX/
> BUILD/condor-8.4.5/src/condor_utils/condor_config.cpp
> 
> I would expect to get a non-zero feedback in a case like that or maybe
> even that a default value would be used instead ? 
> 
> cheers
>         ~christoph

The thing to bear in mind here is that the condor_reconfig
command isn't actually doing the reconfig, but rather sending a "do
a reconfig" instruction to the daemon or daemons in question, so the
feedback you're getting is regarding whether the message was successfully
sent, as opposed to whether it was successfully acted upon by the remote
machine.

        -Michael Pelletier.