Thank you! Doug
From: Merlin Hartley [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2017 7:00 AM To: slurm-dev <[email protected]> Subject: [slurm-dev] Re: Slurm Light? You can just disable accounting altogether by commenting these lines: #JobAcctGatherType=jobacct_gather/linux #JobAcctGatherFrequency=30 #AccountingStorageType=accounting_storage/slurmdbd #AccountingStorageHost= #AccountingStorageLoc= #AccountingStoragePass= #AccountingStorageUser= #AccountingStorageType=accounting_storage/filetxt #AccountingStorageLoc=/var/spool/slurmd/slurmdb.txt Hope this helps! Merlin -- Merlin Hartley Computer Officer MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Cambridge, CB2 0XY United Kingdom On 13 Apr 2017, at 14:55, Douglas Meyer <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: We would like to use slurm in its most stripped down form for very small environments. I can see the options in the slurm.conf to use text files vice a database for accounting and logs. Is there a mechanism obviating the need for accounts and user definition thus allowing us to skip installation of a backend database? Doug
