NAME

       condor_master - HTCondor Manual

       The master HTCondor Daemon

SYNOPSIS

       condor_master

DESCRIPTION

       This  daemon  is  responsible  for keeping all the rest of the HTCondor daemons running on
       each machine in your pool. It spawns the other daemons, and periodically checks to see  if
       there  are  new  binaries  installed for any of them. If there are, the condor_master will
       restart the affected daemons. In addition, if any daemon crashes, the  condor_master  will
       send  e-mail  to  the  HTCondor  Administrator  of  your  pool and restart the daemon. The
       condor_master also supports various administrative commands that let you  start,  stop  or
       reconfigure daemons remotely. The condor_master will run on every machine in your HTCondor
       pool, regardless of what functions each machine are performing.   Additionally,  on  Linux
       platforms,  if  you  start  the  condor_master  as root, it will tune (but never decrease)
       certain kernel parameters important to HTCondor's performance.

       The DAEMON_LIST configuration macro is used by the condor_master to provide a  per-machine
       list of daemons that should be started and kept running. For daemons that are specified in
       the  DC_DAEMON_LIST  configuration  macro,  the  condor_master  daemon  will  spawn   them
       automatically  appending  a  -f  argument.  For  those  listed  in DAEMON_LIST, but not in
       DC_DAEMON_LIST, there will be no -f argument.

       The condor_master creates certain directories necessary  for  its  proper  functioning  on
       start-up  if  they  don't  already  exist,  using the values of the configuration settings
       EXECUTE,   LOCAL_DIR,   LOCAL_DISK_LOCK_DIR,   LOCAL_UNIV_EXECUTE,   LOCK,    LOG,    RUN,
       SEC_CREDENTIAL_DIRECTORY_KRB,    SEC_CREDENTIAL_DIRECTORY_OAUTH,   SEC_PASSWORD_DIRECTORY,
       SEC_TOKEN_SYSTEM_DIRECTORY, and SPOOL.

OPTIONS

          -n name
                 Provides an alternate name for the condor_master to override that given  by  the
                 MASTER_NAME configuration variable.

AUTHOR

       HTCondor Team

COPYRIGHT

       1990-2024,  Center for High Throughput Computing, Computer Sciences Department, University
       of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, US. Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

                                           Apr 14, 2024                          CONDOR_MASTER(1)