Provided by: htcondor_8.4.2~dfsg.1-1build1_amd64 
Name
condor_master 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_masterwill restart the affected daemons. In addition,
if any daemon crashes, the condor_masterwill send e-mail to the HTCondor Administrator of your pool and
restart the daemon. The condor_masteralso supports various administrative commands that let you start,
stop or reconfigure daemons remotely. The condor_masterwill 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_masteras 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_masterto 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_masterdaemon will spawn them automatically appending a -fargument. For
those listed in DAEMON_LIST , but not in DC_DAEMON_LIST , there will be no -fargument.
Options
-n name
Provides an alternate name for the condor_master to override that given by the MASTER_NAME
configuration variable.
Author
Center for High Throughput Computing, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Copyright
Copyright (C) 1990-2015 Center for High Throughput Computing, Computer Sciences Department, University of
Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI. All Rights Reserved. Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
February 2016 condor_master(1)