[slurm-users] [slurm-dev] Re: Installing SLURM locally on Ubuntu 16.04

[Will L]

In general, is Debian more cooperative with HPC systems than Ubuntu?
Because I may just kill my KDE Neon installation and trying Debian + KDE
Plasma.

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On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 10:01 AM, Rajiv Nishtala <nishtala.raj at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> > On 12-Nov-2017, at 3:33 PM, Raymond Wan <rwan.work at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Rajiv,
> >
> > On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 9:47 PM, Rajiv Nishtala <nishtala.raj at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> it maybe that I’m missing context here - but in regards to munge, it
> makes much more sense to follow the munge follow instructions from the
> GitHub of munge.
> >> Remember, the permissions for the key and the /var/ and /etc folder are
> important
> >>
> >> Best wishes,
> >> Rajiv
> >
> >
> > Hmmmm, I actually don't agree since sometimes the distribution (i.e.,
> > Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, etc.) has made some changes to a piece of
> > software to integrate it with the rest of the system.  At least with
> > some programs (I think it was the case with slurm, but I can't quite
> > remember), following general information, information for another
> > distribution, or even information for an older OS version caused me to
> > bark up the wrong tree…
> I setup slurm recently on ubuntu 14.x and 16.x and both seemed to work
> fine with the instructions given. Like I said, I maybe missing information
> to provide concrete information I know.
> >
> > For munge, this would be the files in /usr/share/doc/munge/ and
> > whatever's on-line.
> >
> > But you are right that the upstream instructions cannot be ignored and
> > should be consulted in addition to the distribution-relevant
> > documentation, in case the latter is wrong (which does happen).
> I agree with that.
> >
> > Ray
> >
>
>
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