[slurm-users] Are SLURM_JOB_USER and SLURM_JOB_UID always constant and available

Kevin Buckley Kevin.Buckley at pawsey.org.au
Thu May 21 07:26:52 UTC 2020


On 2020/05/21 12:14, Christopher Samuel wrote:
> On 5/20/20 7:23 pm, Kevin Buckley wrote:
> 
>> Are they set as part of the job payload creation, and so would ignore
>> and node local lookup, or set as the job gets allocated to the various
>> nodes it will run on?
> 
> Looking at git, it's a bit of both:
> 
> src/slurmd/slurmd/req.c:
> 
>           setenvf(&env, "SLURM_JOB_UID", "%u", job_env->uid);
> [...]
>           setenvf(&env, "SLURM_JOB_USER", "%s", job_env->user_name);
> 
> so the variables get set on the slurmd side (as you'd expect) but from
> data that is sent along with the job.
> 
> All the best,
> Chris

That's good to know, Chris, thanks: especially at this late hour.

We've been seeing jobs start that sometimes don't resolve a $USER reference,
inside the job submission script, however, if the scripts use $SLURM_JOB_USER,
then they will get the value they need to procede.

The failure to resolve $USER has been seen to be transient, so that's another
issue in itself.

Cheers again, and a "good afternnon" from here.
Kevin
-- 
Supercomputing Systems Administrator
Pawsey Supercomputing Centre



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