[HTCondor-users] Installing condor on debian

[Samik Raychaudhuri <samikr@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I recently tried installing HTCondor on a debian VM in google cloud compute using the UW debian repo. The v8.6.1 installed fine without any issues. However when I tried starting condor after installing, it would only start the master daemon and nothing else. Investigating this further, I found a file /etc/condor/config.d/00debconf, which has a bunch of configurations that were trumping the configurations in /etc/condor/condor_config.

Now, I have installed HTCondor v8.6.1 before from UW debian repo on a debian VM (running on Virtualbox), and have not noticed this file. Question: how/when does this show up?

Next, I also noticed a stub /etc/condor/condor_config.local file, which I haven't seen before. The file has the following line: "Note that DebConf-generated configuration will overwrite settings in this file." However, in practice, when I put my intended configurations in this file, things happily run, without being overridden by /etc/condor/config.d/00debconf. This is also evident from the order shown in the MasterLog:

04/09/17 10:47:11 Using config source: /etc/condor/condor_config
04/09/17 10:47:11 Using local config sources:
04/09/17 10:47:11ÂÂÂ /etc/condor/config.d/00debconf
04/09/17 10:47:11ÂÂÂ /etc/condor/condor_config.local
04/09/17 10:47:11 config Macros = 62, Sorted = 62, StringBytes = 1777, TablesBytes = 2288

What gives? Things are running now, but looks puzzling to me.

Regards,
-Samik