Hi, As far as I understand salloc is used to make allocations but initiate a shell (whatever the sallocdefaultcommand specifies) on the node you called salloc. If you’re looking for an interactive session you‘ll probably have to use srun --pty xterm . This will allocate the resources AND initiate a shell on one of the allocated nodes. Best Andreas
Am 02.01.2019 um 14:43 schrieb Mahmood Naderan <mahmood...@gmail.com<mailto:mahmood...@gmail.com>>: Chris, Can you explain why I can not get a prompt on a specific node while I have passed the node name to salloc? [mahmood@rocks7 ~]$ salloc salloc: Granted job allocation 268 [mahmood@rocks7 ~]$ exit exit salloc: Relinquishing job allocation 268 [mahmood@rocks7 ~]$ salloc --nodelist=compute-0-2 salloc: Granted job allocation 269 [mahmood@rocks7 ~]$ exit exit salloc: Relinquishing job allocation 269 [mahmood@rocks7 ~]$ grep SallocDefaultCommand /etc/slurm/slurm.conf #SallocDefaultCommand = "xterm" [mahmood@rocks7 ~]$ As you can see the default SallocDefaultCommand is commented. So, I expected to override the default command. Regards, Mahmood On Sun, Dec 30, 2018 at 9:11 PM Mahmood Naderan <mahmood...@gmail.com<mailto:mahmood...@gmail.com>> wrote: So, isn't possible to override that "default"? I mean the target node. In the faq page it is possible to change the default command for salloc, but I didn't see your confirmation. I really have difficults with interactive jobs that use x11 or binary files or bash scripts. For some of them, srun doesn't work while salloc works. On the other hand with srun I can choose a target nide while I can't do that with salloc. Has anybody faced such issues? On Sun, Dec 30, 2018, 20:15 Chris Samuel <ch...@csamuel.org<mailto:ch...@csamuel.org>> wrote: On 30/12/18 7:16 am, Mahmood Naderan wrote: > Right... > I also tried > > [mahmood@rocks7 ~]$ salloc --nodelist=compute-0-2 -n 1 -c 1 --mem=4G -p > RUBY -A y4 > salloc: Granted job allocation 199 > [mahmood@rocks7 ~]$ $ > > I expected to see the compute-0-2 prompt. Is that normal? By default salloc gives you a shell on the same node as you ran it on, with a job allocation that you can access by srun. You can read more about interactive shells here: https://slurm.schedmd.com/faq.html#prompt All the best, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC
