On 11/02/16 12:31, jupiter wrote: > I am running slurm on CentOS 6. One thing I've just noticed is that the > slurmctld is running under the user slurm but the slurmd is running > under the root.
slurmd has to run as root as it must be able to start processes as the users whose jobs are to run. http://slurm.schedmd.com/quickstart_admin.html # The slurmd daemon executes on every compute node. It resembles # a remote shell daemon to export control to Slurm. Because slurmd # initiates and manages user jobs, it must execute as the user root. All the best, Chris -- Christopher Samuel Senior Systems Administrator VLSCI - Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative Email: [email protected] Phone: +61 (0)3 903 55545 http://www.vlsci.org.au/ http://twitter.com/vlsci
