This page last changed on Dec 22, 2008 by dcline.

Condor Installation on a Mac

  1. Create user Condor
  2. Down Condor as user Condor
  3. Extract the Condor tar file to /Users/condor/Applications. This should create the directory /Users/condor/Applications/condor-6.8.8.
  4. Installed using
    sudo condor_configure \
        --install=/Users/condor/Applications/condor-6.8.8/release.tar \
        --install-dir=/opt/condor-6.8.8 \
        --local-dir=/Users/condor/Applications/condor-6.8.8 \
        --type=execute,submit \
        --owner=condor --central-manager=nanomia.shore.mbari.org
    
    • which returned
      Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.)
      or string at ./condor_configure line 932.
      
      Condor has been installed into:
         /opt/condor-6.8.8
      
      In order for Condor to work properly you must set your
      CONDOR_CONFIG environment variable to point to your
      Condor configuration file:
         /opt/condor-6.8.8/etc/condor_config
      before running Condor commands/daemons.
      
  5. Edit /Users/condor/.profile to set CONDOR_CONFIG to /opt/condor-6.8.8/etc/condor_config
  6. Create /opt/condor-6.8.8/sbin/condor_start.sh with the following content:
    CONDOR_ROOT=/opt/condor-6.8.8
    export PATH=$PATH:$CONDOR_ROOT/sbin:$CONDOR_ROOT/bin
    export CONDOR_CONFIG=/opt/condor-6.8.8/etc/condor_config
    $CONDOR_ROOT/sbin/condor_master
    
  7. Create /opt/condor-6.8.8/sbin/condor_start.sh with the following content:
    CONDOR_ROOT=/opt/condor-6.8.8
    export PATH=$PATH:$CONDOR_ROOT/sbin:$CONDOR_ROOT/bin
    export CONDOR_CONFIG=/opt/condor-6.8.8/etc/condor_config
    $CONDOR_ROOT/sbin/condor_off -master
    
  8. Edit crontab as user using "sudo crontab -e", then add the following:
    @reboot sleep 100 && /usr/local/condor/sbin/condor_start.sh
    
  9. Edit the /Users/condor/Applications/condor-6.8.8/condor_config.local file:
    • Change DAEMON_LIST to include only MASTER, STARTD
    • Change CONDOR_IDS to be same uid of condor user 503.20
    • Change CONDOR_ADMIN to be dcline@mbari.org
    • Change LOCAL_DIR = /Users/condor/Applications/condor-6.8.8
  10. Reboot to start condor daemon

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