Re: [Condor-users] Temporarily disabling quill?

[Erik Paulson <epaulson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 08:13:57PM -0800, Stuart Anderson wrote:
> How does one temporarily disable Quill?
> 
> Setting QUILL_ENABLED = FALSE on a system that normally runs Quill is
> rather humours:
> 
> while (TRUE) {
> 	condor_quilld exits with "Quill is currently disabled."
> 	condor_master notices and restarts quill
> }
> 
> As I understand it, if I modify DAEMON_LIST to remove QUILL from
> there I then need to restart condor_master itself, which means a
> full shutdown/restart of the entire pool, which seems rather drastic.
> 
> The motivation for this is to be able perform maintenance/debugging tasks
> on the underlying PostgreSQL database for a live pool, and hence trying to
> redirect condor_q/condor_history queries to the schedd rather than
> quill/database for the duration.
> 

condor_off -subsystem quill  should tell the master shut the quill daemon
down. Then you can set quill_enabled = false (and reconfig the schedd) and
nothing will try to contact the quill daemon or use the database.

-Erik