Re: [Condor-users] Temporarily disabling quill?

[Stuart Anderson <anderson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 10:48:48PM -0600, Erik Paulson wrote:
> 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,
	I will give that a try but the Condor 6.8.2 manpage for condor_off
has no mention of "quill" or "subsystem"?

Thanks.

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