On Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:52:04 +0200 Stijn De Weirdt wrote: > hi all, Hi, > we would like to organize our users in groups wrt eg fairshare. > one thing that is aboslutely unclear to me is how maui sees the > concept of a group. the documentation on this is rather thin and yes, > i could check the code but sending emails is easier ;) > > the documentation suggests that a groupname (ie what you must put > between [] in GROUPCFG[]) corresponds to a regular group in linux. > but i still have questions: From our experience: > a. how is this checked? is this group the primary group of the user or > does maui scan all groups to check if the user is a member?
only primary group. We specify all secondary groups one byone. > b. is this checked at all? or better: why can i send a job with torque > using qsub -W group_list=somegroup and maui happily starts the job > (ok, no GROUPCFG was defined, but the user certainly was not in the > group. if this is only checked when any GROUPCFG is defined then i > apologise for my impatience) I dont' get you... sorry :-( > c. how do other people manage users and groups within maui? some more > patches maybe? we do not take care of users, only groups. here is an example of FS in our farm: GROUPCFG[picvo] FSTARGET=12 QDEF=lhpicvo GROUPCFG[picvosgm] FSTARGET=44 QDEF=lhpicvo MAXPROC=3 GROUPCFG[picvoprd] FSTARGET=44 QDEF=lhpicvo QOSCFG[lhpicvo] FSTARGET=1 MAXPROC=50 ** MAXPROC in picvosgm is ignored but doc says it mut work. > many thanks, > > stijn HTH, Arnau _______________________________________________ mauiusers mailing list [email protected] http://www.supercluster.org/mailman/listinfo/mauiusers
