Ticket 4041 - slurmctld does not reopen file specified in AccountingStorageLoc when receiving SIGHUP
Summary: slurmctld does not reopen file specified in AccountingStorageLoc when receivi...
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
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Product: Slurm
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Accounting (show other tickets)
Version: 17.02.6
Hardware: Linux Linux
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Assignee: Jacob Jenson
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Reported: 2017-08-01 02:48 MDT by Giovanni Torres
Modified: 2017-08-01 02:48 MDT (History)
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Description Giovanni Torres 2017-08-01 02:48:08 MDT 
Overview
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slurmctld does not rotate the accounting file specified in AccountingStorageLoc, when AccountingStorageType is set to accounting_storage/filetxt. scontrol reconfigure also ignores the accounting file. It seems restarting is the only way to force slurmctld to reopen the file.

https://slurm.schedmd.com/accounting.html seems pretty clear that SIGHUP should re-open the file and recommends to use logrotate for the accounting file.

Steps to Reproduce:
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1. Run slurmctld with AccountingStorageType=accounting_storage/filetxt and AccountingStorageLoc=/var/log/slurm/accounting.log
2. Move the file /var/log/slurm/accounting.log to /var/log/slurm/accounting.log.1 and create a new one with the right permissions
3. Send SIGHUP to the slurmctld process

Actual Results:
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slurmctld continues writing to /var/log/slurm/accounting.log.1

Expected Results:
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slurmctld writes to the newly created file /var/log/slurm/accounting.log as specified in AccountingStorageLoc.

Build Date & Hardware:
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slurm 17.02.6 on Ubuntu 16.04.2

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