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2.4 Enabling Torque as a Service

Enabling Torque as a service is optional. In order to run Torque as a service, you must enable trqauthd. (see Configuring trqauthd for Client Commands).

The method for enabling Torque as a service is dependent on the Linux variant you are using. Startup scripts are provided in the contrib/init.d/ directory of the source package. To enable Torque as a service, run the following on the host for the appropriate Torque daemon:

RedHat (as root)

> cp contrib/init.d/pbs_mom /etc/init.d/pbs_mom

> chkconfig --add pbs_mom

> cp contrib/init.d/pbs_server /etc/init.d/pbs_server

> chkconfig --add pbs_server

SUSE (as root)

> cp contrib/init.d/suse.pbs_mom /etc/init.d/pbs_mom

> insserv -d pbs_mom

> cp contrib/init.d/suse.pbs_server /etc/init.d/pbs_server

> insserv -d pbs_server

Debian (as root)

> cp contrib/init.d/debian.pbs_mom /etc/init.d/pbs_mom

> update-rc.d pbs_mom defaults

> cp contrib/init.d/debian.pbs_server /etc/init.d/pbs_server

> update-rc.d pbs_server defaults

You will need to customize these scripts to match your system.

These options can be added to the self-extracting packages. For more details, see the INSTALL file.