2014-08-06 17:50 GMT+02:00 Erica Riello <ericaflrie...@gmail.com>: > Uwe, > > I've created slurm user and edited the value in slurm.conf. However, it > still shows the same error message: > > > sudo slurmctld -D -vvvv > slurmctld: pidfile not locked, assuming no running daemon > slurmctld: error: Configured MailProg is invalid > slurmctld: error: Job accounting information gathered, but not stored > slurmctld: fatal: Incorrect permissions on state save loc: /var/spool > > There's no /var/log/audit directory, is it supposed to be there? > > I'm a newbie, I don't know what's SELinux... > http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security-Enhanced_Linux ;-)
> > The file slurm.conf is attached to this email. > > Regards, > > Erica > > > > 2014-08-05 17:55 GMT-03:00 Uwe Sauter <uwe.sauter...@gmail.com>: > > I suggest that you create the slurm user as described in the guide. >> Check again the permissions of all folders that are configured in >> slurm.conf. (Does munge run as a separate user?) >> >> If you still have problems then it would be good if you post your >> complete slurm.conf so the list can check that for errors. >> >> Also take a look into /var/log/audit/audit.log (at least on RHEL based >> distributions this is the file where SELinux logs errors). >> >> I'm not sure if SELinux could be another piece in this puzzle but you >> could also try turning off SELinux temporarily (run setenforce 0, this >> won't survive a reboot). >> >> >> Regards, >> >> Uwe >> >> Am 05.08.2014 22:39, schrieb Erica Riello: >> >> Uwe, >> >> Thank you for the info. >> >> I compiled it myself, following the instructions available in the >> website. >> >> Regards, >> >> Erica. >> >> >> 2014-08-05 17:32 GMT-03:00 Uwe Sauter <uwe.sauter...@gmail.com>: >> >>> Erica, >>> >>> sure it could be changed. But then you have to change all the >>> permissions of the different folders that slurm uses to reflect that. >>> >>> Running daemons as root is discouraged since a few years for security >>> reasons. This doesn't necessarly mean that the daemon is started by that >>> user account but that it gives up all those privileges that it doesn't need >>> right after the start and that it also changes the EUID (effective user id) >>> once it did setup all the things it needs root privileges for (like binding >>> a socket <1024). >>> The keyword to search for is "capabilities". A very good and detailed >>> book about this and many other topics is "The Linux Programming Interface" >>> by Michael Kerrisk (http://man7.org/tlpi/) >>> >>> Can you tell us how you installed slurm? Did you compile it yourself or >>> used RPMs? If you used RPMs, those should have created the user account I >>> was referring to. >>> >>> I didn't have problems installing by following >>> http://slurm.schedmd.com/quickstart_admin.html >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Uwe >>> >>> >>> Am 05.08.2014 22:20, schrieb Erica Riello: >>> >>> Hi Uwe, >>> >>> I thought it could be changed to another user. Well, if it is the user >>> who will run the daemons, shouldn't it be root? >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Erica >>> >>> >>> 2014-08-05 17:10 GMT-03:00 Uwe Sauter <uwe.sauter...@gmail.com>: >>> >>>> Hi Erica, >>>> >>>> I think you misunderstood the concept of "service user" in Linux. >>>> >>>> SlurmUser in the slurm.conf doesn't mean which user should be able to >>>> use SLURM (submit jobs, etc.) but which system user will run the slurm >>>> control daemon and slurm database daemon. This user is usually called >>>> "slurm". >>>> >>>> Here's the line of my /etc/passwd for this user: >>>> >>>> slurm:x:222:222:SLURM Manager:/:/bin/false >>>> >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> >>>> Uwe >>>> >>>> >>>> Am 05.08.2014 22:04, schrieb Erica Riello: >>>> >>>> Kiran, >>>> >>>> that's exactly what I've done, but I still get the same error >>>> messages. >>>> >>>> Erica >>>> >>>> >>>> 2014-08-05 15:54 GMT-03:00 Kiran Thyagaraja <ki...@rice.edu>: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> You should be ideally specifying a directory under /var/spool >>>>> e.g /var/spool/slurm and then change its permissions so that the >>>>> SlurmUser can write to it. >>>>> >>>>> Kiran >>>>> >>>>> On 08/05/2014 01:33 PM, Mike Johnson wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Re: [slurm-dev] >>>>>> >>>>>> Hi Erica >>>>>> >>>>>> What's the value of SlurmUser in the slurm.conf? >>>>>> >>>>>> You'll need to make sure the MailProg exists and is executable by the >>>>>> SlurmUser too >>>>>> >>>>>> Mike >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On 5 August 2014 18:20, Erica Riello <ericaflrie...@gmail.com >>>>>> <mailto:ericaflrie...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Hi all, >>>>>> >>>>>> I've been trying to run the slurm controller daemon, but I get an >>>>>> error I have no idea how to solve: >>>>>> >>>>>> > sudo slurmctld -Dcvvvv >>>>>> slurmctld: pidfile not locked, assuming no running daemon >>>>>> slurmctld: error: Configured MailProg is invalid >>>>>> slurmctld: error: Job accounting information gathered, but not >>>>>> stored >>>>>> slurmctld: fatal: Incorrect permissions on state save loc: >>>>>> /var/spool >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Munge daemon is running and /var/spool permissions are: >>>>>> >>>>>> > ls -ld /var/spool >>>>>> drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Ago 5 13:31 /var/spool >>>>>> >>>>>> Does anyone knows how should /var/spool permissions be set? >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks in advance. >>>>>> >>>>>> -- Erica >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> =============== >>>> Erica Riello >>>> Aluna Engenharia de Computação PUC-Rio >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> =============== >>> Erica Riello >>> Aluna Engenharia de Computação PUC-Rio >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> =============== >> Erica Riello >> Aluna Engenharia de Computação PUC-Rio >> >> >> > > > -- > =============== > Erica Riello > Aluna Engenharia de Computação PUC-Rio > >
