Btw, when I run condor_configure, it will fail unless I specify --owner(which I set to condor). I thought this was supposed to default to condor when run as root unless a condor user didn't exist on the local machine,in which case you would be required to specify --owner. Am I wrong?
condor_configure is a perl script, so you can snoop around in there.
How is it failing? It looks like the perl is written to do what you
say. Is getpwnam() failing?
I noticed that if I remove the setting of CONDOR_IDS, then when I start condor_master as root, none of the daemons start at all, although the
master starts as condor. I can only get the daemons to start if I
explicitly set CONDOR_IDS to condor (which I thought it should also
default to).
That's very strange. You shouldn't have to set CONDOR_IDS. I think
something is not right with your usernames/authentication. What do you
use? /etc/passwd? NIS?
Also, I cannot get condor_off -master (or any condor_off call) to work. It says it sent the kill to the master, but no daemons are ever killed. I can only kill them by running kill directly. This is the case whether the daemons are running as root or as condor. Any idea why?
This could be a permissions problem. Is the machine you're doing the
condor_off from in the list specified by HOSTALLOW_ADMINISTRATOR? Also,
a message to this effect ought to appear in the master's log file.
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