Using a Preexisting Condor Installation

If you are installing the VDT server and you wish the gatekeeper/jobmanager to use a Condor installation that you made previously, you can have the VDT use it.

Before you install the VDT, you can set two environment variables:

• VDTSETUP_CONDOR_CONFIG: The location of your Condor config file.
• VDTSETUP_CONDOR_BIN: The location of you Condor bin directory.

For example, if you are using a C shell variant and Condor is installed in /usr/local/condor, and the condor_config file is in /usr/local/etc, you could do:

setenv VDTSETUP_CONDOR_CONFIG /usr/local/etc/condor_config
setenv VDTSETUP_CONDOR_BIN /usr/local/condor/bin
pacman -get VDT:VDT-Server

This will configure the gatekeeper and jobmanager to use your pre-existing Condor setup. Condor will still be installed as part of the VDT, but neither the Globus gatekeepr nor the jobmanager will use this newly-installed VDT Condor. You can still use it as a client tool (e.g. for submitting Condor-G jobs, etc).