Re: [HTCondor-users] Need to "service condor restart" on the worker node to make server aware of worker node

[Greg Thain <gthain@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/21/2017 10:26 AM, Stephen Jones wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm moving to a Centos7 version of HTCondor, version 8.3.6.
>
> I find I need to do "service condor restart" on the worker node to 
> make server aware of worker node in the first place, else 
> condor_status shows nothing.
>
> Is that normal? Shouldn't service on worker node try to connect to the 
> head node every now and then? Is there a time limit?

By default, the condor_startd updates the collector when it starts, 
every time there is a significant state change, and also every five 
minutes, in case the collector restarts. If the worker node is running 
fine, a restart shouldn't be needed.

-greg