[slurm-users] sending mails wit smail on rocky9

[Marcus Wagner via slurm-users]

Hi  all,

I have a problem with sending mails on rocky 9 via Slurm.

One needs to install s-nail to have "/bin/mail" being available.

There are some caveats in smail. In the second part (for the message,
when the job began) one need to pipe ( eg echo "") into $MAIL, even in a
script with no input, s-nail wants to be interactive. but it suffices to
echo an empty text to snail.

Nonetheless, I don't get any mail through. it seems the, mailprog for
some reason gets killed or errors out for some other reason. While it is
perfectionally working if run from the console :/

I all the time get in the slurmctld.log the following:

27212:[2024-12-19T15:54:54.935] slurmscriptd: error: run_command:
killing MailProg operation on shutdown
27213:[2024-12-19T15:54:54.945] slurmscriptd: _run_script: JobId=0
MailProg killed by signal 9
27214:[2024-12-19T15:54:54.945] error: MailProg returned error, it's
output was ''
27395:[2024-12-19T15:55:55.540] slurmscriptd: error: run_command:
killing MailProg operation on shutdown
27396:[2024-12-19T15:55:55.551] slurmscriptd: _run_script: JobId=0
MailProg killed by signal 9
27397:[2024-12-19T15:55:55.551] error: MailProg returned error, it's
output was ''
27438:[2024-12-19T15:56:55.981] slurmscriptd: error: run_command:
killing MailProg operation on shutdown
27439:[2024-12-19T15:56:55.981] slurmscriptd: error: run_command:
killing MailProg operation on shutdown
27440:[2024-12-19T15:56:55.992] slurmscriptd: _run_script: JobId=0
MailProg killed by signal 9
27441:[2024-12-19T15:56:55.992] slurmscriptd: _run_script: JobId=0
MailProg killed by signal 9
27442:[2024-12-19T15:56:55.992] error: MailProg returned error, it's
output was ''
27443:[2024-12-19T15:56:55.992] error: MailProg returned error, it's
output was ''
27450:[2024-12-19T15:56:58.849] slurmscriptd: error: run_command:
killing MailProg operation on shutdown
27451:[2024-12-19T15:56:58.859] slurmscriptd: _run_script: JobId=0
MailProg killed by signal 0


any hints?

Best
Marcus

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