[slurm-users] Problem with permisions. CentOS 7.8

[Steven Senator (slurm-dev-list)]

What is in /var/log/munge/munged.log?
Munge is quite strict about permissions in its whole hierarchy of
control and configuration files, appropriately.

On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 11:01 AM Rodrigo Santibáñez
<rsantibanez.uchile at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> You could find the solution here
> https://wiki.fysik.dtu.dk/niflheim/Slurm_installation
>
> Best regards
>
> El jue., 28 de mayo de 2020 12:55, Ferran Planas Padros <ferran.padros at su.se> escribió:
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>> Hello,
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>> I have installed Slurm under CentOS 7.8 Kernel 3.10.0-1127.el7.x86_64. The Slurm version I have installed is 14.03.3 along with Munge 0.5.11.
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>> I know these are not the latest versions, but I wanted to have consistency in all my nodes.
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>> I am facing a problem when I try to start Munge in the nodes with CentOS 7.8. Anytime I want to start Munge (service munge start) I get the error that I detail below.
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>> 'munged[36385]: munged: Error: Failed to check logfile "/var/log/munge/munged.log": Permission denied'
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>> I run the command as slurm user, and the /var/log/munge folder does belong to slurm.
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>> I have the exact same setup on older nodes which are working under CentOS 6.6 and 6.5, and there I have no problem. At the end of the year we plan to migrate all nodes to CentOS 7.x, and I really need to understand what is happening here.
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>> Best,
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>> Ferran