Condor for UNIX Installation Guide

Please note that this entry is currently under construction.

Downloading Condor

It can be downloaded from http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/downloads/

Condor has a pretty good set of documentation available at http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/manual/v6.6/3_2Installation.html .. You should read it before following my directions.

Creating a Condor user and group

You must first add a Condor user and group for Condor processes to run under. Under Linux, you might do the following:

sudo groupadd condor
sudo adduser condor -g condor              # for RedHat or Fedora Users
sudo useradd condor -g condor              # for other Linux flavors

Installing Condor

Create

Untar the distribution into /tmp, and go into the directory that it creates. From there we run condor_configure:

tar -zxvf /tmp/condor-6.6.6-linux-x86-glibc23-dynamic.tar.gz
cd condor-6.6.6
sudo ./condor_configure --type=submit,execute --install-dir=/usr/local/condor --owner=condor --install

Initial Configuration

Move the etc/ subfolder to etc/condor, and symlink bin* to /usr/local/bin. This is all done strictly for convenience.

sudo mv etc /etc/condor
sudo ln -s /etc/condor etc
cd /usr/local/bin
sudo ln -s /usr/local/condor/bin/* .

Please read condor_config settings on how you should set condor_config up prior to running.

Starting Condor for the first time

sudo -u condor /usr/local/condor/sbin/condor_master

Watching the logs

You may want to tail -f the files in /usr/local/condor/local.`hostname`/logs for status message updates.

Setting Condor to start with your system bootup

sudo chkconfig --add condor
sudo chkconfig --level 2 condor on
sudo chkconfig --level 3 condor on
sudo chkconfig --level 4 condor on
sudo chkconfig --level 5 condor on

(to be continued)