Fyi, sending sighup to slurmctld is sufficient for rotating the slurmctld.log file. No need to actually restart it all the way. It is good to know the cause behind the deleted jobs.
Doug On Oct 11, 2016 7:36 AM, "Ryan Novosielski" <novos...@rutgers.edu> wrote: > > Thanks for clearing that up. I was pretty sure there was no problem at all > in using logrotate, and I know that restarting slurmctld does not > ordinarily lose jobs. > > -- > ____ > || \\UTGERS, |---------------------------* > O*--------------------------- > ||_// the State | Ryan Novosielski - novos...@rutgers.edu > || \\ University | Sr. Technologist - 973/972.0922 (2x0922) ~*~ RBHS > Campus > || \\ of NJ | Office of Advanced Research Computing - MSB C630, Newark > `' > > > On Oct 11, 2016, at 06:19, Philippe <philippe.ra...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hello all, > > sorry for this long delay since my first post. > > Thanks for all the answers, it helped me to make some tests, and after > not so long, I realize I use a personnal script to launch the daemons, and > I was still using my "debug" start line, which contains the startclean > argument ... > > So it's all my fault, Slurm did his job to startclean when the logrotate > triggered it. > > > > Sorry for that ! > > > > On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 2:05 PM, Janne Blomqvist < > janne.blomqv...@aalto.fi> wrote: > > On 2016-09-27 10:39, Philippe wrote: > > > If I can't use logrotate, what must I use ? > > > > You can log via syslog, and let your syslog daemon handle the rotation > > (and rate limiting, disk full, logging to a central log host and all the > > other nice things that syslog can do for you). > > > > > > -- > > Janne Blomqvist, D.Sc. (Tech.), Scientific Computing Specialist > > Aalto University School of Science, PHYS & NBE > > +358503841576 || janne.blomqv...@aalto.fi > > > > >
