I think the -W or -A option should over-ride others - or at least this should be configurable.
It would be nice to have a default account code - say in a file in the home directory of the submitter. That might be a useful alternative. Gareth Williams > -----Original Message----- > From: Bas van der Vlies [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 4 January 2008 1:54 AM > To: mauiusers@supercluster.org > Subject: Re: [Mauiusers] Maui/Torque and Fairshare with secondary Unix > groups > > Happy new year everyone, > > I had some time to examine the source of maui and found two ways to > implement this functionality in maui. So we are not depended anymore > on the user primary group for Fairshare or specifying some > commandline parameters for qsub. > > Here are the two solutions: > 1) Introduce a new parameter: FSGROUPS, eg: > FSGROUPS one two three > > When a job is submitted: > a) check if the user is a member of one of this groups > b) if yes then set the credentials to the matching group. > > 2) When a job is submitted: > a) get all the groups where the user is a member of with the > "getgrouplist" function. I do not know if this function is available > on all platforms. > b) Then check if for one of the user groups a fairshare target is set > c) if yes then set the credentials to this group. > > > Option 2 has more freedom but i do not know if all OS'es support the > getgrouplist function. > > I want to know which solution the community thinks is the best one? > > Regards > > On Dec 10, 2007, at 3:05 PM, Bas van der Vlies wrote: > > > > > In our old setup the primary user group was the same as the > > fairshare group > > in Maui. so we did not have any problems with the Fairshare (FS) > > setup. > > > > We are now switching to a new User administration system and use > > the Linux > > setup. Every user has as primary group his own group (user: bas, > > group: bas). > > > > I have read some docs and the problem is that torque only sent the > > primary > > group to Maui. There are several setup's possible: > > * write a torque submit filter that adds -W or -A, But to my > > knowledge > > the submit filter does not work for batch jobs that are submitted > > via qsub -I > > > > * In maui: > > USERCFG[bas] QDEF=SARA > > QOSCFG[SARA] FSTARGET=80.0 > > But this is not very scalable. Every time a new user is added we > > have to > > restart Maui and generate a line as above. > > > > * Are there other solutions possible? > > > > What i am thinking about is to patch Maui, like the way Torque has > > done it > > with the acl_group_sloppy paramter or patch Torque to send also the > > secondary groups of user. > > > > regards, > > > > > > -- > > ******************************************************************** > > * * > > * Bas van der Vlies e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * > > * SARA - Academic Computing Services phone: +31 20 592 8012 * > > * Kruislaan 415 fax: +31 20 6683167 * > > * 1098 SJ Amsterdam * > > * * > > ******************************************************************** > > _______________________________________________ > > mauiusers mailing list > > mauiusers@supercluster.org > > http://www.supercluster.org/mailman/listinfo/mauiusers > > -- > Bas van der Vlies > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > _______________________________________________ mauiusers mailing list mauiusers@supercluster.org http://www.supercluster.org/mailman/listinfo/mauiusers
