CONDOR_ON(1)

✨ CONDOR_ON ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the condor_on(1) page — it's part of the HTCondor Manual and it's literally the "wake up babe, the daemons are here" command 💖

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🌸 NAME 🌸

condor_on — HTCondor Manual

Start up HTCondor daemons 💫

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

condor_on [-help | -version ]

condor_on [-debug ] [-pool centralmanagerhostname[:portnumber]] [ -name
hostname | hostname | -addr "<a.b.c.d:port>" | "<a.b.c.d:port>" |
-constraint expression | -all ] [-daemon daemonname]

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

condor_on wakes up a set of the HTCondor daemons on a set of machines. periodt. But here's the catch, bestie — this command assumes the condor_master is already running on the machine. If it isn't, condor_on will fail and complain that it cannot find the address of the master 😭 so like, check that first, okay?

Call condor_on with no arguments, or with the -daemon master option, and it'll tell the condor_master to start up the HTCondor daemons that are listed in the configuration variable DAEMON_LIST. If you specify a daemon that is not the condor_master with the -daemon option, then condor_on starts up only that one daemon. very picky. very demure. 💅

🚩 This command cannot be used to start up the condor_master daemon. nope. not happening. not today.

And for security reasons of authentication and authorization, this command requires ADMINISTRATOR level of access 👑 so make sure you've got the credentials, bestie, otherwise it's giving… nothing.

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🌈 OPTIONS 🌈

• -help — Display usage information 🫶
• -version — Display version information ⭐
• -debug — Causes debugging information to be sent to stderr, based on the value of the configuration variable TOOL_DEBUG. it's giving main character detective energy 🔍
• -pool centralmanagerhostname[:portnumber] — Specify a pool by giving the central manager's host name and an optional port number 💫
• -name hostname — Send the command to a machine identified by hostname
• hostname — Send the command to a machine identified by hostname (yes bestie, same vibe, just without the flag 💖)
• -addr "<a.b.c.d:port>" — Send the command to a machine's master located at "<a.b.c.d:port>"
• "<a.b.c.d:port>" — Send the command to a machine located at "<a.b.c.d:port>"
• -constraint expression — Apply this command only to machines matching the given ClassAd expression 🎯
• -all — Send the command to all machines in the pool 🌈 everybody gets a turn
• -daemon daemonname — Send the command to the named daemon. Without this option, the command is sent to the condor_master daemon. (so that's the default, iykyk)

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🦋 EXAMPLES 🦋

Wanna begin running all daemons (other than condor_master) that are given in the configuration variable DAEMON_LIST on the local host? say less:

$ condor_on

To start up only the condor_negotiator on two named machines:

$ condor_on  robin cardinal -daemon negotiator

To start up only a daemon within a pool of machines other than the local pool, use the -pool option. The argument is the name of the central manager for the pool. Note that one or more machines within the pool must be specified as the targets for the command. 👀 This command starts up only the condor_schedd daemon on the single machine named cae17 within the pool of machines that has condor.cae.wisc.edu as its central manager:

$ condor_on -pool condor.cae.wisc.edu -name cae17 -daemon schedd

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💀 EXIT STATUS 💀

• 0 — Success 🎉
• 1 — Failure 😭

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

condor_off, condor_restart, condor_reconfig, condor_vacate — the whole squad fr fr 🫶

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🧚 AVAILABILITY 🧚

Linux, MacOS, Windows 🌍

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

HTCondor Team

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🍓 COPYRIGHT 🍓

1990-2026, Center for High Throughput Computing, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, US. Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

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okay that's the whole page bestie, no cap 💖 this was CONDOR_ON(1) from the HTCondor Manual, dated Oct 16, 2026 — go start some daemons, you absolute icon 👑✨