On Friday July 01 2011 7:46:55 PM you wrote: > Correct me if i'm wrong, but currently in order for a user to show up > in the accounting system under slurm, that user needs to be added to > the database with sacct, otherwise when the user runs a job, they are > inserted with a null in the table.
If you aren't enforcing associations the user's jobs should show up with a blank account, unless they specify something at submit time. If they haven't been added to accounting they will get a 0 for an association ID. > > is there a mechnism to automatically add users on job launch, rather > then having to preload a user table? No, currently there is not. > > I expect most people preload the tables because they are using > accounting for levee against a 'gold' system, whereas all of our users > are basically the same and we only want the fair-share scheduling part > not the 'gold' tracking part I am not sure if your assessment is correct or not. In your case where every user is on a flat tree I could see how this would be a nice feature though. You would have to live with fat finger issues though, but if you didn't care which account people ran in then perhaps that isn't a big deal. Currently there are no plans to add this, but we can put in on our wishlist of things to do. Danny
