Re: [HTCondor-users] Startd fails on fresh install due to missing execute directory

[Dmitri Maziuk <dmitri.maziuk@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/4/23 18:56, Tim Theisen via HTCondor-users wrote:
> We test installing HTCondor on Ubuntu and have not seen that problem.
>
> The installation script creates the condor account with a home directory 
> of /var/lib/condor.
>
> Is it possible that the condor account already exists with a different 
> home directory. That would be one possible explanation for the failure.
>
> Let me know. I can add some defensive coding for installations where 
> condor's default home directory has been changed.

We never changed the homedir but we had our condor acct in ldap so that 
the uid:gid was the same on all nodes.

If your install creates the homedir as a side-effect of running 
`adduser`, and the user already exists ...

Dima