> On Jan 2, 2019, at 3:49 PM, Mark Hahn <h...@mcmaster.ca> wrote:
>
>> [mahmood@rocks7 ~]$ salloc -n1 hostname
>> salloc: Granted job allocation 278
>> rocks7.jupiterclusterscu.com
>> salloc: Relinquishing job allocation 278
>> salloc: Job allocation 278 has been revoked.
>> [mahmood@rocks7 ~]$
>>
>> As you can see whenever I run salloc, I see the rocks7 prompt which is the
>> login node.
>
> this is precisely as expected. salloc allocates; srun runs.
>
> to get a compute node do this instead:
> salloc srun hostname
>
> if you actually want to srun an interactive shell each time,
> why are you not using SallocDefaultCommand as others have suggested?
>
> you earlier mentioned wanting to run an X-requiring script. why not just:
> salloc --x11 srun ./whateveryourscriptwas
For that matter, however, what’s the advantage of “salloc --x11 srun” vs. just
"srun --x11”?
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