Re: [Condor-users] Condor version upgrade

[Ian Chesal <ICHESAL@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Is it possible to upgrade condor from condor. What i would like is update
> condor from a single location. All machine are winodws machine and the
> binary are local to the machine. Is there anyway to use the existing
> condor installation to upgrade condor?

Windows (at least Windows up to Vista -- I've not tried W7), not Condor, makes it exceptionally annoying to deploy new binaries. Files in use are locked by the OS and you cannot overwrite them. Attempting to run a Condor job that would overwrite your Condor binaries will fail, you won't be able to copy over the Condor binaries that are in use which will be at least condor_startd and condor_starter. But probably more files than that because there are shared library files in use too when Condor is working.

You can look at using something like PsExec from the PSTools pack: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897553.aspx

It's free and it lets you run remote commands on Windows machines without much hassle. Not as elegant as ssh, but better than nothing. You'd need to:

        * Shut down Condor on the machine
        * Use PsExec to install a new Condor version, silently, from a shared source
        * Restart Condor

- Ian

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