> On Jan 12, 2018, at 15:00, Mehdi Dogguy <me...@dogguy.org> wrote: > > I agree. My patch would only help others to not fall into the trap of using > slurm's default pid paths. A more suitable mid-term goal would be to use > /var/run as a state dir, just like upstream. I'll leave this bugreport open > (and retitle it accordingly) to remind us about what's remaining to do.
OK, thanks! From memory, I think the directory where the PID file is written is not statedir as configured through the autotools but rather something hardcoded in the source. And just to clarify, by default Debian’s slurmd already writes its PID-file there, it’s just that startup-scripts expect the location to be customized (as is done through e.g. the default Debian configuration file). However, I at least some slurm installations cannot use the Debian configuration file everywhere.
