The globus-personal-gatekeeper command is a utility which manages a gatekeeper and job manager service
for a single user. Depending on the command-line arguments it will operate in one of several modes. In
the first set of arguments indicated in the synopsis, the program provides information about the
globus-personal-gatekeeper command or about instances of the globus-personal-gatekeeper that are running
currently. The second set of arguments indicated in the synopsis provide control over starting a new
globus-personal-gatekeeper instance. The final set of arguments provide control for terminating one or
more globus-personal-gatekeeper instances.
The -start mode will create a new subdirectory of $HOME/.globus and write the configuration files needed
to start a and write the configuration files needed to start a globus-gatekeeper daemon which will invoke
the globus-job-manager service when new authenticated connections are made to its service port. The
globus-personal-gatekeeper then exits, printing the contact string for the new gatekeeper prefixed by
GRAM contact: to standard output. In addition to the arguments described above, any arguments described
in globus-job-manager(8) can be appended to the command-line and will be added to the job manager
configuration for the service started by the globus-gatekeeper.
The new globus-gatekeeper will continue to run in the background until killed by invoking
globus-personal-gatekeeper with the -kill or -killall argument. When killed, it will kill the
globus-gatekeeper and globus-job-manager processes, remove state files and configuration data, and then
exit. Jobs which are running when the personal gatekeeper is killed will continue to run, but their job
directory will be destroyed so they may fail in the LRM.
The full set of command-line options to globus-personal-gatekeeper consists of:
-help,-usage
Print command-line option summary and exit
-version
Print software version
-versions
Print software version including DiRT information
-list
Print a list of all currently running personal gatekeepers. These entries will be printed one per
line.
-directoryCONTACT
Print the configuration directory for the personal gatekeeper with the contact string CONTACT.
-debug
Print additional debugging information when starting a personal gatekeeper. This option is ignored in
other modes.
-start
Start a new personal gatekeeper process.
-jmtypeLRM
Use LRM as the local resource manager interface. If not provided when starting a personal gatekeeper,
the job manager will use the default fork LRM.
-auditdirAUDIT_DIRECTORY
Write audit report files to AUDIT_DIRECTORY. If not provided, the job manager will not write any
audit files.
-portPORT
Listen for gatekeeper TCP/IP connections on the port PORT. If not provided, the gatekeeper will let
the operating system choose.
-log[=DIRECTORY]
Write job manager log files to DIRECTORY. If DIRECTORY is omitted, the default of $HOME will be used.
If this option is not present, the job manager will not write any log files. will be used. If this
option is not present, the job manager will not write any log files.
-seg
Try to use the SEG mechanism to receive job state change information, instead of polling for these.
These require either the system administrator or the user to run an instance of the
globus-job-manager-event-generator program for the LRM specified by the -jmtype option.
-acctfileACCOUNTING_FILE
Write gatekeeper accounting entries to ACCOUNTING_FILE. If not provided, no accounting records are
written.