Re: [HTCondor-users] Installing condor on debian

[Samik Raychaudhuri <samikr@xxxxxxxxx>]

After some research, and comparing with the installation of HTCondor on another VM, I think I got the explanation. I installed v8.2.3 on this VM box directly by using 'sudo apt-get condor', before setting up the UW repo and installing v8.6.1. Looks like this file (00debconf) is from that installation. However, the behavior reflects v8.6.1, so I guess I am good.

Looks like 'sudo apt-get remove condor' did not clean up these files from v8.2.3.

Thanks.
-Samik

On 09-Apr-17 4:29 PM, Samik Raychaudhuri wrote:

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