A post reservation cleanup is probably a good feature to add at the end of a reservation. Even if it's a shutdown, right now it's a hard stop or a reinstall for bare-metal.
Aaron On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 9:02 AM, Peter Dimitrios <petedag...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks! I've setup my service script to get check on bootup if an > end-user id exists, and do nothing if it doesn't. I have a generic > user (called "user") already added to use to make SSH connections. > I invoke it during vcl_post_reserve: > > # Allow user "user" to SSH in (using certificates) > sed -i 's/^AllowUsers.*/& user/' /etc/ssh/external_sshd_config > /etc/rc.d/init.d/ext_sshd restart > /etc/rc.d/init.d/init-openmpi-node-service start > > The startup script registers the node with the cluster by creating a > file on an NFS share under the end-user's home directory there. > > The only issue a the moment is that I haven't found a proper hook to > invoke the "service stop" routine, which unregisters the node from > the cluster. I can hook "vcl_post_reload", but at that time the > image has already been cleaned up. It doesn't seem that the image > goes through a shutdown or reboot (init 0) at the end of the > reservation, so the service script never gets a chance to perform its > stop action. Any hints before I do some further spelunking in the > code? > -- Aaron Peeler Program Manager Virtual Computing Lab NC State University All electronic mail messages in connection with State business which are sent to or received by this account are subject to the NC Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties.
