[Mauiusers] maui.cfg on a shared directory??

[gianfranco sciacca]

Dear all,

I'm trying to setup Maui with the following configuration:
Maui server running on the same machine hosting the torque server
(configured --with-spooldir=/var/spool/maui - this is where the maui.cfg
file ends up being) and client commands (configured as default) on a nfs
share exported to the local network of machines. I have setup Maui to
talk to PBS over port 15005 which works fine, I think (at least it works
well on another 2-node setup I have)

Commands such as showq (from a client machine) want the maui.cfg to be
in /var/spool/maui (not sure why), so I got round this by creating on
the client machine a symbolic link /var/spool/maui/maui.cfg to the real
configuration file sitting on the shared directory. All of this seems in
principle right, but I must be doing it the wrong way as the clients do
not seem to be able to get proper communication with the server:

> showq --loglevel=9
INFO:     LOGLEVEL set to 9
MUGetOpt(1,ArgV,C:D:F:hP:V?-:abip:ru:v,OptArg)
INFO:     flags loaded
INFO:     1 command line args remaining:  'showq'
MSUConnect(S,FALSE,EMsg)
INFO:     trying to connect to xxx.xx.x.xx (Port: 15005)
INFO:     non-blocking mode established
MSUSelectWrite(3,30000000)
INFO:     successful connect to TCP server (sd: 3)
MCSendRequest(S)
MSUSendData(S,30000000,TRUE,FALSE)
MSecGetChecksum2(Buf1,27,Buf2,33,Checksum,[NONE],CSKey)
INFO:     header created '00000080
CK=e96a2536f378122f TS=1128006244 AUTH=root DT='
INFO:     sending short packet '00000080
CK=e96a2536f378122f TS=1128006244 AUTH=root DT=CMD=showq AUTH=root ARG=0
ALL 0
'
MSUSendPacket(3,Buf,89,30000000,SC)
INFO:     sending packet '00000080
CK=e96a2536f378122f TS=1128006244 AUTH=root DT=CMD=showq AUTH=root ARG=0
ALL 0
'
MSUSelectWrite(3,30000000)
INFO:     packet sent (89 bytes of 89)
INFO:     message sent to server
INFO:     message sent: 'CMD=showq AUTH=root ARG=0 ALL 0
'
MSURecvData(S,30000000,TRUE,SC,EMsg)
MSURecvPacket(3,BufP,9,NULL,30000000)
MSUSelectRead(3,30000000)
ALERT:    cannot determine packet size
ERROR:    lost connection to server
ERROR:    cannot request service (status)

Any idea to help me out of this?? By the way, the error persists even if
I copy over to the client machine the maui.cfg file rather than symlink
it.

cheers,
gianfranco
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