Re: [HTCondor-users] HTCondor 8.2.10 Released

[Brian Bockelman <bbockelm@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Svein,

Itâs highly discouraged to add the âcondorâ user to external databases anyway: this can cause problems in starting up HTCondor (particularly, if the condor or other services are started prior to availability of said database).

Instead, itâs best to treat this like user ânobodyâ or âhttpdâ: automatically installed or allocated by the system.

Can you provide a bit more explanation as to why you want to have condor in the external user DB anyway?

Thanks,

Brian

PS - RHEL / Fedora have the ability to reserve static UID/GID for a particular system user.  HTCondor should really do that, but I donât think anyoneâs followed up on that yet...

> On Nov 2, 2015, at 3:45 AM, Svein BÃe <svein@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Would it be possible not to depend on user "condor"? We have a campus wide user database and
> I can not add this user. I have previously used the CONDOR_IDS configuration variable when using
> a Condor tarball. Could this be done also with the rpm version and SELinux?
> 
> Will there be a Condor tarball including SELinux policy for centralized installation over NFS?
> 
> Svein
> 
> On 10/23/2015 03:57 PM, Tim Theisen wrote:
>> To make things easier on folks, I also made a previous repository for the 8.2.10 release.
>> 
>> cd /etc/yum.repos.d
>> wget http://research.cs.wisc.edu/htcondor/yum/repo.d/htcondor-previous-rhel7.repo
>> 
>> Since we make the development, stable, and previous stable tarballs available; I decided to have development, stable, and previous repositories.
>> 
>> The SELinux configuration works with the default installation. However, it is known not to work with advanced features such as cgroups. I will continue to improve the SELinux rules for HTCondor in the 8.4 series.
>> 
>> Let us know how it works for you.
>> 
>> ...Tim
>> 
>> On 10/23/2015 08:48 AM, Feldt, Andrew N. wrote:
>>> Svein,
>>> 
>>> If you have the EPEL repo enabled, it provides the development release of HTCondor.  You can add the line:
>>> 
>>> exclude=condor*
>>> 
>>> to the EPEL repo file to disable this.  Then you can get the HTCondor repo via:
>>> 
>>> cd /etc/yum.repos.d
>>> wget http://research.cs.wisc.edu/htcondor/yum/repo.d/htcondor-stable-rhel7.repo
>>> 
>>> This will get access to the stable release.  Note that the current stable release is 8.4.0, but the 8.2.10 release can be forced by specifying it.
>>> 
>>> Andy
>>> 
>>>> On Oct 23, 2015, at 4:01 AM, Svein BÃe <svein@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I am not able to find the rpm for 8.2.10, for rhel7. There is no link on htcondor
>>>> download page. When I use yum for installation,, I get release 8.3.6. The reason
>>>> why I need 8.2.10 is to get the selinux policy.
>>>> 
>>>> Best regards
>>>> Svein
>>>> 
>>>> On 23. okt. 2015 03:42, Tim Theisen wrote:
>>>>> The HTCondor team is pleased to announce the release of HTCondor 8.2.10.
>>>>> A stable series release contains significant bug fixes.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Highlights of this release are:
>>>>> - an updated RPM to work with SELinux on EL7 platforms
>>>>> - fixes to the condor_kbdd authentication to the X server
>>>>> - a fix to allow the condor_kbdd to work with shared port enabled
>>>>> - avoid crashes when using more than 1024 file descriptors on EL7
>>>>> - fixed a memory leak in the ClassAd split() function
>>>>> - condor_vacate will error out rather than ignore conflicting arguments
>>>>> - a bug fix to the JobRouter to properly process the queue on restart
>>>>> - a bug fix to prevent sending spurious data on a SOAP file transfer
>>>>> - a bug fix to always present jobs in order in condor_history
>>>>> 
>>>>> More details about the fixes can be found in the Version History:
>>>>> http://www.cs.wisc.edu/htcondor/manual/v8.2.10/10_3Stable_Release.html
>>>>> 
>>>>> Downloads Page:
>>>>> http://www.cs.wisc.edu/htcondor/downloads/
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thank you for your interest in HTCondor!
>>>>> 
>>>>> - The HTCondor Team
>>>>> 
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