Condor YUM Repository

Install Instructions

Note: "root" user must be used to perform installation.

Download and install the YUM repository file that matches your operating systems. There is a seperate repository for Development and Stable releases of Condor. If you just want the latest Condor release then please install both repositories.

OS	Development Release	Stable Release	Supported Platforms
Redhat Enterprise Linux 4	condor-development-rhel4.repo	condor-stable-rhel4.repo	i386, x86_64
Redhat Enterprise Linux 5	condor-development-rhel5.repo	condor-stable-rhel5.repo	i386, x86_64
Redhat Enterprise Linux 6	condor-development-rhel6.repo	condor-stable-rhel6.repo	x86_64

Note: Redhat 4 RPMs are created on Redhat 3

Example - Redhat 5: Install latest Condor's release

cd /etc/yum.repos.d
wget http://research.cs.wisc.edu/condor/yum/repo.d/condor-development-rhel5.repo
wget http://research.cs.wisc.edu/condor/yum/repo.d/condor-stable-rhel5.repo

Example - Redhat 4: Install only Condor's stable release

cd /etc/yum.repos.d
wget http://research.cs.wisc.edu/condor/yum/repo.d/condor-stable-rhel4.repo

[Optional] Add condor user.

The Condor package will automatically add a 'condor' user/group if it does not exist already. Sites with a specific security policy should add the 'condor' user/group manually before performing the installation.

[Optional] Condor RPM is relocatable. To install this RPM into other locations, please follows these instructions.

Install Condor RPM

On 32-bit machines:

yum install condor

On 64-bit machines:

yum install condor.x86_64

[Optional] Edit Condor's configuration file which locates at /etc/condor/condor_config.local

This RPM is shipped with the Personal Condor configuration. Please do not use condor_configure or condor_install to configure Condor installed via this RPM.

Start Condor daemons

service condor start

Check if Condor is running

ps -ef | grep condor

Expected Result:

condor   29612     1  0 23:36 ?        00:00:01 /usr/sbin/condor_master -pidfile /var/run/condor/master.pid
condor   29613 29612  0 23:36 ?        00:00:00 condor_collector -f
condor   29614 29612  0 23:36 ?        00:00:00 condor_negotiator -f
condor   29615 29612  0 23:36 ?        00:00:00 condor_schedd -f
condor   29616 29612  1 23:36 ?        00:00:05 condor_startd -f
root     29618 29615  0 23:36 ?        00:00:00 condor_procd -A /var/run/condor/procd_pipe.SCHEDD -S 60 -C 102

Release Notes

This version of Condor RPM follows Filesystem Hierarchy Standard. Whereas, existing Condor RPM (prior to 7.5.1) install everything into /opt/condor-{version}. It is possible to install this RPM into non-stardard such as /opt/condor. Please refer to the relocatable section for more details.

The following table shows path layout compared to original Condor's binary package.

Orignal Location	Current Location
bin	/usr/bin
etc	/etc/condor/
etc/examples	/usr/share/doc/condor-{version}/etc/examples
examples	/usr/share/doc/condor-{version}/examples
include	/usr/include/condor
lib	/usr/lib/condor \| /usr/lib64/condor
libexec	/usr/libexec/condor
local/condor_config.local	/etc/condor/
local/execute	/var/lib/condor/execute
local/spool	/var/lib/condor/spool
man	/usr/share/man
sbin	/usr/sbin
sql	/usr/share/condor/sql
src	/usr/src
INIT	/etc/init.d/condor
PID	/var/run/condor
LOGS	/var/log/condor
LOCK	/var/lock/condor

Orignal Location

Current Location

bin

/usr/bin

etc

/etc/condor/

etc/examples

/usr/share/doc/condor-{version}/etc/examples

examples

/usr/share/doc/condor-{version}/examples

include

/usr/include/condor

lib

/usr/lib/condor | /usr/lib64/condor

libexec

/usr/libexec/condor

local/condor_config.local

/etc/condor/

local/execute

/var/lib/condor/execute

local/spool

/var/lib/condor/spool

man

/usr/share/man

sbin

/usr/sbin

sql

/usr/share/condor/sql

src

/usr/src

INIT

/etc/init.d/condor

PID

/var/run/condor

LOGS

/var/log/condor

LOCK

/var/lock/condor

When RPM is relocated, it will automatically install and update init.d script to match its new location. However, when installing the nth instance of Condor, it will not stop existing Condor or modify init.d scipt. This method should be use only for testing a new version of Condor only because it will not affect the running instance. However, installing Condor in default location and using RPM upgrade facility is more preferable for upgrading. Otherwise, please install Condor via tar file in order to avoid unexpected behavior of the RPM package.

Installing Condor into other locations

Condor RPM contains 3 prefixes that can be relocated to any locations. The RPM itself will automatically update configuration file to match the new locations.

Prefix	Contents
/etc	Configuration files and init script
/usr	Binaries, scripts, documentation, examples and etc.
/var	Log files and execute folder

Note: Each prefix can be relocated into different folder.

[Optional] Install Yum's downloadonly module in order to download RPM from repository

yum install yum-downloadonly

Download Condor RPM from yum repository to temporary folder

yum install condor --downloadonly --downloaddir=/tmp

Install RPM into /opt/condor folder

rpm -ivh /tmp/condor-7.5.1-1.rhel5.i386.rpm \
--relocate /usr=/opt/condor-7.5.0/usr \
--relocate /var=/opt/condor-7.5.0/var \
--relocate /etc=/opt/condor-7.5.0/etc

Note: "-i" option will keep the existing version of Condor in the system. To remove a specific instance of Condor, stop its processes and use rpm -e condor-{version} to remove it. Please see this section for more detail about the behavior of Condor RPM when multiple instances are installed