Re: [Condor-users] Fedora

[Alain Roy <roy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Can anyone tell me what the current status is with condor and Fedora
> installations, is it just core 1 or will it run on core 2 as well?

Condor 6.7.3 added support for Fedora Core 1, 2, and 3. From the version 
history:

http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/manual/v6.7/8_2Development_Release.html
> Added Full Ports of Condor to Redhat Fedora Core 1, 2 and 3 on the 32-bit 
> x86 architecture. Please read the Linux platform specific section 6.1.5 in 
> this manual for more information on caveats with this port.

If you use standalone checkpointing (outside of the standard universe), 
there is a small issue in section 6.1.5:

http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/manual/v6.7/6_1Linux.html#sec:platform-linux-fed
> 6.1.5 Red Hat Fedora 1, 2, and 3
>
> Redhat Fedora Core 1, 2, and 3 now support the checkpointing of statically 
> linked executables just like previous revisions of Condor for Red Hat. 
> condor_ compile works to link user jobs for the Standard universe with the 
> versions of gcc that are distributed with Red Hat Fedora Core 1, 2, and 3.
>
> However, there are some caveats: A) You must install and use the dynamic 
> Red Hat 9.x binaries on the Fedora machine and B) if you wish to do run a 
> condor_ compiled binary in standalone mode(either initially or in 
> resumption mode), then you must prepend the execution of said binary with 
> setarch i386. Here is an example: suppose we have a Condor-linked binary 
> called myapp, running this application as a standalone executable will 
> result in this command: setarch i386 myapp. The subsequent resumption 
> command will be: setarch i386 myapp -_condor_restart myapp.ckpt.
>
> When standard universe executables condor_ compiled under any currently 
> supported Linux architecture of the same kind (including Fedora 1, 2, and 
> 3) are running inside Condor, they will automatically execute in the i386 
> execution domain. This means that the exec_shield functionality (if 
> available) will be turned off and the shared segment layout will default 
> to Red Hat 9 style. There is no need to do the above instructions 
> concerning setarch if the executables are being submitted directly into 
> Condor via condor_ submit.

-alain