What's new

This version of glite-TORQUE_client depends on the current version of the Torque RPMS in the EPEL repository, 2.3.13.

In these RPMs, /var/spool/pbs is changed to /var/torque in the EPEL supplied Torque RPMs. This cannot be altered.

YAIM configuration

The glite-yaim-torque-* scripts have been updated to take this into account.

For YAIM, the directory where the Torque configuration and log files are found can be configured by setting the variable

 TORQUE_VAR_DIR=/var/torque

in the site-info.def. The default value is the value listed here.

APEL & accounting

The new glite-yaim-torque scripts also update the APEL configuration file.

If the accounting logs are exported using NFS to a separate CREAM CE then the mounts must be adjusted from '/var/spool/pbs' to '/var/torque'.

Upgrade notes

• Because the Torque spool directory has changed location it is not recommended to upgrade a running Torque setup. Information about running jobs will be lost when the new RPMs are installed.

• For complex site setups it is possible to ease the upgrade process by creating a symlink /var/spool/pbs -> /var/torque

  The following command sequence has been found to be helpful:

  1. Prepare:

     service pbs_mom stop

     mv /var/spool/pbs /var/torque

     ln -s /var/torque /var/spool/pbs

     service pbs_mom start

  2. Upgrade:

     Install new torque rpms

     Run yaim

The extra advantage of this is that the TORQUE_VAR_DIR variable does not need to be explicitly set in the site-info.def file.