Re: [HTCondor-users] No daemons are running and attempts to restart condor so far have been unsuccessful

[Todd Tannenbaum <tannenba@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 3/13/2019 1:05 PM, Jeffrey Tsai via HTCondor-users wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 
> After some investigation, I found that none of the daemons were running 
> on the Central Manager (using ps aux | grep condor). 
[snip]
> 
> I tried using condor_master which says that it can't open the log file 
> located at /var/log/condor/MasterLog. Any other command such as 
> condor_restart or condor_off outputs the message: "Can't connect to 
> local master."
> 
> I don't really know what the next steps for troubleshooting would be - I 
> did look at the config files and there seems to be no obvious error. If 
> anyone could offer a solution or guidance it would be greatly appreciated!
> 

Hi Jeff,

At first blush it looks like HTCondor was installed on your machine as 
root, and thus expects to be started as root. My guess is when you tried 
running condor_master, you did so as a regular user, and thus HTCondor 
did not have sufficient permissions (thus the error message about not 
able to write to file /var/log/condor/MasterLog).

How did you install HTCondor?  As root using an RPM or DEB package? If 
so, the RPM or DEB package should have setup your machine to run 
condor_master upon boot-up.   You may want to look at the tail of 
/var/log/condor/MasterLog file to see if it says why HTCondor was shut down.

Hope the above helps,
Todd