[Condor-users] Hostname problem, OSX 10.5

[Chris Jewell <c.p.jewell@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

I've run into a problem on Mac OSX 10.5 concerning the hostname and IP 
address that Condor registers when it starts.  I've written a 
LaunchDaemon plist (below) to launch condor_master on boot on the worker 
machines.  However, it seems to be binding to 127.0.0.1 -- when it 
registers with the Collector I get errors (from the Collector) such as:

DC_AUTHENTICATE: session theCollector:1254:1349141429:44 NOT FOUND; this 
session was requested by <130.123.155.217:49223> with return address 
<127.0.0.1:49153>

The MasterLog on the worker machine confirms the daemons have bound to 
127.0.0.1. AFAICS this looks like the daemons on the worker machine have 
come up before networking was available (we assign our hostnames and 
IP's by DHCP) and hence grabbed the loopback address.

Does anyone have any tips for how I might delay the start of the Condor 
daemons until after networking is up, or prevent them from binding to 
the loopback address?

Thanks,

Chris

Example .plist:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" 
"http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd";>
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>condor</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>/condor/sbin/condor_master</string>
	<string>-f</string>
    </array>
    <key>EnvironmentVariables</key>
    <dict>
      <key>CONDOR_CONFIG</key>
      <string>/condor/etc/condor_config</string>
    </dict>
    <key>RunAtLoad</Key>
    <true/>
    <key>KeepAlive</key>
    <true/>
</dict>
</plist>

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Dr Chris Jewell
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Institute of Fundamental Sciences
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