Dear developers, we have a small testing cluster with 44 compute nodes, the OS is Scientific Linux 6.4 and we are using SLURM. The first installed version of Slurm was 2.5.7 and we have upgraded Slurm to 2.6.0 -> 2.6.1 -> 2.6.2 -> 2.6.3.
We always build the Slurm packages. We download the sources from: " http://www.schedmd.com/#repos"; and we build them with the command: "rpmbuild -ta slurm*.tar.bz2". Always we had an issue with the init script "/etc/init.d/slurm". On the compute nodes this script returns always that the slurmd daemon is not running, even if it is. The problem lies in the slurmstatus() function where the $pidfile variable has the special character '"' and it can never test correctly if the pid file exists or not. In order to fix this behaviour we add one command in the init script: line 167: pidfile=${pidfile//\"/} So, could you please include this fix in the next Slurm version 2.6.4?? It could be also possible that the default init script has some other issues that we haven't found yet, so it would be nice if you could check it more deeply. Thanks in advance! Best Regards, Chrysovalantis Paschoulas Juelich Supercomputing Centre Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany
