I built slurm on one machine (controller) and copied the new slurmd binary to a node. When I started it systemctl it failed with the message:
fatal: Unable to find slurmstepd file at /home/dean/src/slurm.versions/slurm-19.05.4.build/ The path it refers to is what I gave to ./configure --prefix==... on the controller where I built the binaries. The --prefix= value is used by the make install step to output the slurm* binaries it creates to. That path also gets written into the generated .service files. for ExecStart=.. I change the ExecStart= in the .service files to /usr/local/sbin where I place the slurm* binaries. Here's my slurmd.service file on my node: Unit] Description=Slurm node daemon After=munge.service network.target remote-fs.target ConditionPathExists=/etc/slurm/slurm.conf [Service] Type=forking EnvironmentFile=-/etc/sysconfig/slurmd ExecStart=/usr/local/sbin/slurmd $SLURMD_OPTIONS ExecReload=/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID PIDFile=/var/run/slurmd.pid KillMode=process LimitNOFILE=131072 LimitMEMLOCK=infinity LimitSTACK=infinity Delegate=yes TasksMax=infinity [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target Why is the slurmd binary looking for the build path? That path is not in any .service or .conf file on the node.
