Re: [HTCondor-users] daemon foreground spawning with Condor >=8.9

[Thomas Hartmann <thomas.hartmann@xxxxxxx>]

Hi TJ,

many thanks for the detailed explanation!

I will keep my fingers off it ;)

Cheers,
  Thomas


On 26/08/2021 19.55, John M Knoeller wrote:
> Yes.  DC_DAEMON_LIST is obsolete,  you should never touch it.
>
> It does NOT control what daemons are running.   it controls how a 
> condor_master
> starts and talks to a daemon that it doesn't think is one of the daemons 
> that is
> included in the HTCondor installer.
>
> For the curious,  Once apon a time, DC_DAEMON_LIST was something you had 
> to set
> if you wanted to start up a second copy of a HTCondor daemon under a 
> single condor_master
> and you wanted the condor_master to know that it was really a standard 
> HTCondor daemon.
> (i.e. it accepted the same command line arguments and signals as other 
> HTCondor daemons)
>
> But it is no longer necessary change DC_DAEMON_LIST when you do this, so 
> this knob
> is basically obsolete.
>
> -tj
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* HTCondor-users <htcondor-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of 
> Thomas Hartmann <thomas.hartmann@xxxxxxx>
> *Sent:* Thursday, August 26, 2021 7:25 AM
> *To:* HTCondor-Users Mail List <htcondor-users@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> *Subject:* [HTCondor-users] daemon foreground spawning with Condor >=8.9
> Hi all,
>
> is there a difference between
>     DAEMON_LIST
> and
>     DC_DAEMON_LIST
> from 8.9.7 (including 9.0+) onwards?
>
> If I get it correctly, the DC list should spawn its daemons into the
> foreground using the -f flag and with 8.9.7 this became the default
> behaviour. I would interpret it, that daemons started from one or the
> other list should behave the same, or?
>
> Cheers,
>     Thomas
>
>
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