[slurm-users] SLURM on Ubuntu 18.04

[Patrick Goetz]

Why wouldn't slurm.conf just go into /etc/slurm?

On 05/03/2018 10:33 AM, Raymond Wan wrote:
> Hi Eric,
> 
> 
> On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 11:21 PM, Eric F. Alemany <ealemany at stanford.edu> wrote:
>> I will follow your advice. It doesn't hurt to try right (?)
>>
>> Thank you for your quick reply
> 
> 
> No, it doesn't hurt to try.  If this was an upgrade of some sort, then
> the only concern might be downtime and its effect on users.  But as
> this seems like a new installation, there is no harm at all.
> 
> Keep an eye on the log files in /var/log/.  The paths should be set in
> the slurm.conf .  They are quite helpful [on Ubuntu, at least].  When
> I did a fresh 17.10 install, the type of errors I got were write
> permissions for the slurm process, etc. and most of this was mentioned
> in the log files.  Maybe start with just the head node and then once
> you get that working, add the execution nodes.
> 
> Good luck!
> 
> Ray
>