Hello, Do you have "PrologFlags=alloc" in slurm.conf? If not, you'll need it, otherwise the privileged prologs won't run until the first step is executed on a node.
-Doug ---- Doug Jacobsen, Ph.D. NERSC Computer Systems Engineer National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center <http://www.nersc.gov> dmjacob...@lbl.gov ------------- __o ---------- _ '\<,_ ----------(_)/ (_)__________________________ On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 11:20 AM, Yong Qin <yong....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > We implemented our own private /tmp solution via a spank plugin. The > implementation was developed and tested on 15.08.6 and it went well. > However when we move it to the production system which we just upgraded to > 15.08.9, it appears that the slurm_spank_job_prolog() and > slurm_spank_task_init_privileged() functions are not executed if the job is > submitted via sbatch but slurm_spank_job_epilog() is. This is all fine if > the job is submitted via srun though. > > I tried to search it in the bugzilla but couldn't find any report on it, > or maybe I'm not searching with the right keywords? If it is an existing > bug can anybody provide a pointer to it? If it's not a known bug, I'm > wondering if other sites are seeing the same behavior as we do. > > Thanks, > > Yong Qin >
