Local Installation of Condor

This page describes the procedure for installing Condor on a Fedora 13 system from the Condor source code. The Fedora repository version of Condor is a few versions behind and has a few features, such as Checkpointing, disabled. For these reasons, we chose to install Condor from scratch using the Red Hat Enterprise Linux version of the source code.

sudo ./condor_configure --type=manager,submit,execute --local-dir=/var/lib/condor --install-dir=/usr/local/condor --owner=condor --install

export CONDOR_CONFIG=/usr/local/condor/etc/condor_config

I tried to put the binaries in /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/sbin, but sudo's PATH didn't include /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/sbin, which made it inconvenient to run under sudo

ln -s /usr/local/condor/bin/* /usr/bin/
ln -s /usr/local/condor/sbin/* /usr/sbin/
sudo chown condor:condor /usr/local/condor/bin/*
sudo chown condor:condor /usr/local/condor/sbin/*

sudo cp /usr/local/condor/etc/examples/condor.boot.generic /etc/init.d/condor
sudo chmod 774 /etc/init.d/condor
sudo chkconfig --add condor
sudo chkconfig --level 45 condor on

To verify the settings, run the following command and make sure levels 3, 4, and 5 are on

chkconfig --list | fgrep condor