Re: [slurm-users] slurmdbd not showing job accounting

2018-10-17 Thread Chris Samuel
On Sunday, 14 October 2018 3:30:39 PM AEDT Steven Dick wrote: > I've found that when creating a new cluster, slurmdbd does not > function correctly right away. It may be necessary to restart > slurmdbd at several points during the slurm installation process to > get everything working correctly.

[slurm-users] Job walltime

2018-10-17 Thread Andy Georges
Hello, We are migrating away from a Torque/Moab setup. For user convenience, we’re trying to make the differences minimal. I am wondering is there is a way to set the job walltime in the job environment (to set $PBS_WALLTIME). It’s unclear to me how this information can be retrieved on the wo

[slurm-users] Removing a node

2018-10-17 Thread Mahmood Naderan
Hi, I have removed a node, but the squeue command doesn't work and it seems that it still searches for the missing node. [root@rocks7 home]# > /var/log/slurm/slurmctld.log [root@rocks7 home]# systemctl restart slurmctld [root@rocks7 home]# systemctl restart slurmd [root@rocks7 home]# rocks sync s

Re: [slurm-users] Job walltime

2018-10-17 Thread Jeffrey Frey
If you check the sbatch man page, there's no similar variable listed for the job environment. You can: (1) write/add to a spank plugin to set that in the job environment (2) implement a patch yourself and submit it to SchedMD (3) submit a request to SchedMD (if you have a contract) to have th

[slurm-users] User permissions on submitted jobs

2018-10-17 Thread Aravindh Sampathkumar
Hi. I built a SLURM cluster and am able to successfully run jobs as root. However, when I try to submit jobs as a regular user, I hit permission problems. username@console:[~] > srun -N1 /bin/hostname slurmstepd: error: couldn't chdir to `/usr/home/username': Permission denied: going to /tmp in

Re: [slurm-users] User permissions on submitted jobs

2018-10-17 Thread Ole Holm Nielsen
On 17-10-2018 20:13, Aravindh Sampathkumar wrote: I built a SLURM cluster and am able to successfully run jobs as root. However, when I try to submit jobs as a regular user, I hit permission problems. username@console:[~] > srun -N1 /bin/hostname slurmstepd: error: couldn't chdir to `/usr/home