Alan, I sent the way to test the shadow to the list yesterday:
http://gridengine.org/pipermail/users/2012-May/003697.html You need to have at least one shadow daemon running on other hosts - and it is the shadow that monitors the heartbeat file and starts the new qmaster daemon. Rayson On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Alan McKay <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the alternate opinion Jesse, but I'm already there now, more or > less :-) > This is only a small cluster of 5 compute nodes, and I have a major hardware > shortage that can be solved by taking the former SGE Master box and > repurposing it elsewhere. And in fact once that is done I can probably just > make it the master again anyway. > > So I followed the link to Oracle that was given, and ran this on the shadow > boxes : > > ./inst_sge -sm > > It asks me some questions and does some stuff, including starting the shadow > daemon, but it does not put anything in /etc/init.d to start anything. > > So I'm a bit concerned by that. > > If I do it manually I get the following - so something is not right here > > > [root@solexa4 sge]# cp default/common/sgemaster /etc/init.d/ > [root@solexa4 sge]# ps -ef | grep -i sge > sgeadmin 19904 1 0 09:06 ? 00:00:03 > /gridware/sge/bin/lx24-amd64/sge_execd > sgeadmin 24112 1 0 09:35 ? 00:00:00 > /gridware/sge/bin/lx24-amd64/sge_shadowd > root 24745 23210 0 09:40 pts/0 00:00:00 grep -i sge > [root@solexa4 sge]# /etc/init.d/sgemaster stop > shutting down Grid Engine shadowd > [root@solexa4 sge]# /etc/init.d/sgemaster start > > sge_qmaster didn't start! > This is not a qmaster host! > Please, check your act_qmaster file! > > [root@solexa4 sge]# chkconfig sgemaster on > [root@solexa4 sge]# !ps > ps -ef | grep -i sge > sgeadmin 19904 1 0 09:06 ? 00:00:03 > /gridware/sge/bin/lx24-amd64/sge_execd > root 24910 23210 0 09:40 pts/0 00:00:00 grep -i sge > > -- > “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” > - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food" > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > [email protected] > https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users > _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users
