Re: [HTCondor-users] daemon foreground spawning with Condor >=8.9

[Greg Thain <gthain@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 8/26/21 7:25 AM, Thomas Hartmann wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> is there a difference between
> Â DAEMON_LIST
> and
> Â DC_DAEMON_LIST
> from 8.9.7 (including 9.0+) onwards?
>
> If I get it correctly, the DC list should spawn its daemons into the 
> foreground using the -f flag and with 8.9.7 this became the default 
> behaviour. I would interpret it, that daemons started from one or the 
> other list should behave the same, or? 

Hi Thomas:

DAEMON_LIST is the list of daemons the master should spawn. The master 
knows that condor daemons are special -- they send keepalive heartbeats, 
they have well-known command line arguments, etc. DC_DAEMON_LIST is the 
list of condor-special daemons. It is very rare to change this list. 
If you are adding some non-condor program for the master to manage, you 
probably just want to set DAEMON_LIST. If you are starting a 
condor_daemon with a non-default name, you need to also add it to 
DC_DAEMON_LIST.


-greg