[slurm-users] Controller / backup controller q's

2018-05-24 Thread Will Dennis
Hi all, We are building out a new Slurm cluster for a research group here; unfortunately this has taken place over a long period of time, and there's been some architectural changes made in the middle, most importantly the host OS on the Slurm nodes (we were using CentOS 7.x originally, now the

[slurm-users] Why SlurmUser is set to slurm by default?

2018-05-24 Thread Taras Shapovalov
Hey guys, We always use the default value for SlurmUser, but now we have realized that we don't really get why it is user slurm, but not root. Sometimes it is useful to run SlurmctlProlog as root, but then slurmctld will also run as root. Other workload managers are ok to run their control daemons