Re: [HTCondor-users] A couple of questions regarding running jobs with docker containers (Q2)

[Greg Thain <gthain@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jose:

This hostname setting is hardcoded into HTCondor. Nothing bad will 
happen if you change it. The idea was (especially for interactive 
uses), to remind users that they were inside a container, so they 
wouldn't assume that the host's OS was the same as the contained OS.

-greg

On 3/26/21 5:36 AM, jcaballero.hep@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi,
>
> and here is the second question.
>
> I have noticed that one of the input options for the "docker create"
> command is like this
>
>        --hostname <user>-<clusterid>.<procid>-<real_hostname>
>
> So they look like
>
>       --hostname neo-666.0-host123.matrix.net
>
> Is this something hardcoded in HTCondor, or part of our site's configuration?
> If it is a HTCondor thing, would something bad happen if we replace it
> by just the actual hostname?
>
> Cheers,
> Jose
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