Re: [HTCondor-users] Condor is still writing temp data to Condor is still writing temp data to /var/opt/condor even though I specified otherwise

[Todd Tannenbaum <tannenba@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 1/8/2018 4:15 PM, Mobley, Nate (Millennium) wrote:
> Thanks for the input. Yes, I've restarted the system (head node plus 9 compute nodes) as well as the Condor service, multiple times. I originally made this change in May, and it seemed to help for a while.

Maybe the config files were overwritten?

The EXECUTE config setting is used on your compute nodes.

If you login to one of your compute nodes and enter the following 
command, HTCondor will tell you that value of the EXECUTE config knob 
and also the file/line number where it is defined:

   condor_config_val -v execute

Knowing the file where HTCondor is reading EXECUTE from could be helpful.

See "man condor_config_val" for more about this command-line tool to 
query about configuration values.

regards,
Todd



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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Todd Tannenbaum [mailto:tannenba@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, January 08, 2018 4:12 PM
> To: HTCondor-Users Mail List <htcondor-users@xxxxxxxxxxx>; Mobley, Nate (Millennium) <nmobley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [HTCondor-users] Condor is still writing temp data to Condor is still writing temp data to /var/opt/condor even though I specified otherwise
>
> On 1/8/2018 3:30 PM, Mobley, Nate (Millennium) wrote:
> > "/var/opt/condor/execute" is on a very small partition with less than
> > 1 gb available (This is how the system was configured when I hired on
> > to this position, and I cannot change this partition size at this
> > time). My customer's runs are crashing when Condor tries to write any
> > significant amount of data to this location, according to the log
> > file. I changed the EXECUTE path to "/export/condor/execute" in both
> > config files ("/opt/condor/etc/condor_config" and
> > "/opt/condor/etc/condor_config.local"), but for some reason Condor is
> > still trying to write data to "/var/opt/condor/execute."
>
>
> After changing the EXECUTE path in the condor_config file(s), did you
> restart the condor service?  (i.e. as root do /sbin/service condor stop,
> then /sbin/service condor start?)
>
> The HTCondor daemons do not continuously poll the config files for
> changes; most times when you make a change in the config file, you need
> to tell HTCondor to re-read it either via "condor_reconfig" if it is a
> setting that can be changed on-the-fly, or via restarting the condor
> service (killing all condor daemons and restarting them) if the setting
> cannot be changed on the fly.  Most settings that involve filesystem
> paths cannot be changed on-the-fly.
>
> regards and hope this helps,
> Todd


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Center for High Throughput Computing   Department of Computer Sciences
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