I'm testing a new compute node installation method using Ansible, and I have discovered that the Slurm 19.05 RPMs do not create the /var/log/slurm directory, which my previous installation scripts had created manually. With this omission Slurm creates no log files at all which is quite bad. IMHO, the slurm-xx.xx RPM must create the /var/log/slurm directory so that users won't have to do this manually. Probably a configuration in the %post section in slurm.spec is required with: mkdir /var/log/slurm chown slurm: /var/log/slurm FYI: My compute node has these RPMs installed: $ rpm -qa | grep slurm slurm-19.05.5-1.el7.x86_64 slurm-slurmd-19.05.5-1.el7.x86_64 slurm-perlapi-19.05.5-1.el7.x86_64 slurm-devel-19.05.5-1.el7.x86_64 slurm-pam_slurm-19.05.5-1.el7.x86_64 slurm-contribs-19.05.5-1.el7.x86_64
This is the intended behavior since the default is to log via syslog and then allow sites to specify the logging directory/file via the SlurmdLogFile. Additionally, not all sites use /var/log/slurm so hardcoding this would be less than desirable. SlurmdLogFile Fully qualified pathname of a file into which the slurmd daemon's logs are written. The default value is none (performs logging via syslog). Any "%h" within the name is replaced with the hostname on which the slurmd is running. Any "%n" within the name is replaced with the Slurm node name on which the slurmd is running. See the section LOGGING if a pathname is specified. I am making this as resolved.
(In reply to Jason Booth from comment #2) > This is the intended behavior since the default is to log via syslog and > then allow sites to specify the logging directory/file via the > SlurmdLogFile. Additionally, not all sites use /var/log/slurm so hardcoding > this would be less than desirable. > > SlurmdLogFile > Fully qualified pathname of a file into which the slurmd daemon's logs are > written. The default value is none (performs logging via syslog). Any "%h" > within the name is replaced with the hostname on which the slurmd is > running. Any "%n" within the name is replaced with the Slurm node name on > which the slurmd is running. > See the section LOGGING if a pathname is specified. > > > I am making this as resolved. Hi Jason, thanks for the quick answer! Ole
