pbs_server does not email server events

Bug #474727 reported by Dan Kortschak
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torque (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

The torque server does not email queue event changes to the requested address when specified e,g. in torque script including:

<..snip..>
#PBS -m ae
# PBS -M user@host
<..snip..>

does not result in notification to user@host on job abort or termination as it should.

Rebuilding from the sdeb and replacing the pbs_server executable in place (without replacing any other files from the torque-server deb) fixes the problem.

It seems that the initial build environment is where pbs_server gets its information about the location/existence of sendmail (through the configure script) and in the case of the build of this package that was either not in place or not detected.

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 9.04
Release: 9.04
$ apt-cache policy torque-server
torque-server:
  Installed: 2.3.6+dfsg-0ubuntu3
  Candidate: 2.3.6+dfsg-0ubuntu3
  Version table:
 *** 2.3.6+dfsg-0ubuntu3 0
        500 ftp://au.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/multiverse Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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Dan Kortschak (dan-kortschak) wrote :

Note:
<..snip..>
#PBS -m ae
# PBS -M user@host
<..snip..>

should read:
<..snip..>
#PBS -m ae
#PBS -M user@host
<..snip..>

Typo in bug report not torque script. Added additional comment as description not editable.

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Steffen Möller (moeller-debian) wrote :

Jordi said that he can send emails and he fixed something for it in the Torque 2.4 packages that are now in Maverick. Please be so kind to install those and report again/close this bug.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package torque - 2.4.8+dfsg-7

---------------
torque (2.4.8+dfsg-7) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fix paths on "non-standard-dir-perm" overrides.
  * Make torque-server Conflict: torque-client (<= 2.4), and
    torque-client-x11 Replace: torque-gui, for smoother upgrade path
    from the Ubuntu packages.
  * Explicitly enable RPP.
  * Pass --with-rcp=scp so Torque uses scp as remote copy command.
  * Build-Depend on openssh-client.
  * Add gnu_fixes.patch, disabled for now, to fix builds on the Hurd.
    This patch is a temporary hack. As it is now, the package will build,
    but will most probably not work. The correct fix is to disable quota
    support on this platform.

torque (2.4.8+dfsg-6) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Dominique Belhachemi ]
  * fixed manpage generation for GNU/kFreeBSD
  * debian/compat: bump to 7
  * removed packages: libtorque2-doc and torque-doc
  * added symbolic link /var/spool/torque/server_name ->
                        /etc/torque/server_name
  * package torque-common moved to arch-dependent

  [ Jordi Mallach ]
  * Add myself to Uploaders.
  * Minor fixes to package descriptions.
  * Correct uses of $DAEMON_SERVER in init scripts where $NAME should
    have been used instead.
  * Generate $VERSION (now $UVERSION) using dpkg-parsechangelog.
  * Remove linda overrides; linda is no longer in Debian or Ubuntu.
  * Pass --with-sendmail=/usr/sbin/sendmail to configure to get pbs_server
    actually send emails (closes: LP: #474727)
  * Use dh_autotools-dev_updateconfig & dh_autotools-dev-restoreconfig from
    autotools-dev in the build process to update config.{guess,sub}.
  * Bump autotools-dev requirement to >= 20100122.1~ to ensure the
    availability of the Debhelper programs.
  * Split patches and add DEP-3 headers to all of them:
    - Create freebsd5_manpages.patch, gnu-kfreebsd_mach_type.patch and
      spec_fhs_paths.patch.
    - Drop static config.{guess,sub} updating; this is now handled by
      dh_autotools-dev_updateconfig.
  * Add manpage_fixes.patch to fix several spelling errors and
    minus-sign-vs-hyphen issues.
  * Drop README.source and don't Build-Depend on quilt, as they are not
    necessary anymore with source format 3.0 (quilt).
  * Wrap Build-Depends.
  * Add lintian overrides for "non-standard-dir-perm", "file-in-unusual-dir"
    and "setuid-binary".
  * Add a call to dh_lintian.
  * Fix signatures in old, unreleased debian/changelog entries.
 -- Bhavani Shankar <email address hidden> Tue, 15 Jun 2010 10:25:46 +0200

Changed in torque (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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Bram Metsch (metsch) wrote :

Is it possible that this issue will also be fixed for Lucid (10.04 LTS)

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