You may need to install a systemd override file if you have some of the system config left over, it has the path set to /usr/bin/. Example for slurmd, slurmctld and slurmdbd are the same just changing the names:
cat /etc/systemd/system/slurmd.service.d/override.conf [Service] ExecStart= ExecStart=/usr/local/sbin/slurmd $SLURMD_OPTIONS On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 12:37 PM, Bruno Santos <bacmsan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am currently trying to install slurm to serve as a job scheduler for a > research institute. I have installed Debian stretch and initially installed > and configured slurm from the repos. > HoweverI then tried to play with a different server serving as node and > realized that due to the different versions of debian the controller and the > daemon where running different versions of slurm and so not working. > I have since done apt-get remove --purge and tried to install slurm from > src. But it seems that the old configuration is still stuck somewhere as > when I try to run: > > #systemctl enable slurmctld > Synchronizing state of slurmctld.service with SysV service script with > /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install. > Executing: /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install enable slurmctld > Failed to enable unit: Unit file /etc/systemd/system/slurmctld.service is > masked. > # whereis slurmctld > slurmctld: /usr/local/sbin/slurmctld > # slurmctld > bash: /usr/sbin/slurmctld: No such file or directory > > Any idea what could be going wrong? > > Thank you very much in advance. > Best, > Bruno > >
