Carlos, Yes. The cluster uses LDAP for users.
Brian Andrus ITACS/Research Computing Naval Postgraduate School Monterey, California voice: 831-656-6238 From: Carlos Fenoy [mailto:mini...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, November 28, 2016 9:58 AM To: slurm-dev <slurm-dev@schedmd.com> Subject: [slurm-dev] Re: squeue returns "invalid user" for a user that has jobs running Hi, Is the user defined in all the compute nodes? Does it has the same UID in all the hosts? Regards, Carlos On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 6:54 PM, Andrus, Brian Contractor <bdand...@nps.edu<mailto:bdand...@nps.edu>> wrote: Paddy, Nope, it is exactly 8 characters: clwalton Brian Andrus ITACS/Research Computing Naval Postgraduate School Monterey, California voice: 831-656-6238<tel:831-656-6238> -----Original Message----- From: Paddy Doyle [mailto:pa...@tchpc.tcd.ie<mailto:pa...@tchpc.tcd.ie>] Sent: Monday, November 28, 2016 2:35 AM To: slurm-dev <slurm-dev@schedmd.com<mailto:slurm-dev@schedmd.com>> Subject: [slurm-dev] Re: squeue returns "invalid user" for a user that has jobs running Hi Brian, Is there actual username longer than 8 characters? The default squeue format includes "%.8u" for the username. Paddy On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 08:26:36PM -0800, Andrus, Brian Contractor wrote: > All, > > Don't quite get this: > > # squeue|head > JOBID PARTITION NAME USER ST TIME NODES > NODELIST(REASON) > 751071_17703 primary PARAMEIG clwalton CG 3-00:00:19 1 > compute-3-87 > 751071_[36752-6220 primary PARAMEIG clwalton PD 0:00 1 > (Resources) > 787831 primary runwrfam hale PD 0:00 1 > (Reservation) > 751071_36750 primary PARAMEIG clwalton R 0:02 1 > compute-3-33 > 751071_36751 primary PARAMEIG clwalton R 0:02 1 > compute-3-37 > 751071_36749 primary PARAMEIG clwalton R 0:06 1 > compute-8-17 > 787294 primary wrfrunmp hale R 3:34:03 1 > compute-7-1 > # squeue -u clwalton > squeue: error: Invalid user: clwalton > > JOBID PARTITION NAME USER ST TIME NODES > NODELIST(REASON) > # squeue -u hale > JOBID PARTITION NAME USER ST TIME NODES > NODELIST(REASON) > 787831 primary runwrfam hale PD 0:00 1 > (Reservation) > 787294 primary wrfrunmp hale R 3:34:03 1 > compute-7-1 > > > Clearly user clwalton is a valid user and has jobs running, but if I try to > specify him, squeue isn't happy. It is fine with other users... > What would cause this? > > Brian Andrus > ITACS/Research Computing > Naval Postgraduate School > Monterey, California > voice: 831-656-6238 > -- Paddy Doyle Trinity Centre for High Performance Computing, Lloyd Building, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland. Phone: +353-1-896-3725 http://www.tchpc.tcd.ie/ -- -- Carles Fenoy