Ticket 24010

Summary:	sacctmgr dump clustername prints unwarranted information to stderr
Product:	Slurm	Reporter:	Ole.H.Nielsen <Ole.H.Nielsen>
Component:	User Commands	Assignee:	mckay <mckay>
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Description Ole.H.Nielsen@fysik.dtu.dk 2025-10-31 01:23:22 MDT

Besides daily database dumps, we have started dumping also the associations etc. using "sacctmgr dump clustername" to have complete backups.

Unfortunately, the "sacctmgr dump" command prints an unwarranted copy of the dump information to stderr, besides creating the expected dump file.  This is what we get:

$ sacctmgr --quiet dump niflheim 
 No filename given, using ./niflheim.cfg.
sacctmgr: QOS - 'normal':Description='Normal QOS default':Priority=25
QOS - 'high':Description='high':Flags='DenyOnLimit':MaxTRESPerJob=cpu=1000:MaxTRESPerUser=cpu=1000:MaxWallDurationPerJob=600:Priority=50
QOS - 'devel':Description='devel':Flags='DenyOnLimit':MaxTRESPerUser=cpu=800,gres/gpu=8:MaxWallDurationPerJob=180:Priority=100
Cluster - 'niflheim':Fairshare=1:QOS='normal'
sacctmgr: Parent - 'root'
(lots of lines deleted)

There doesn't seem to be any good reason to print a duplicate of the dump file to stderr.

Can you please make a fix to suppress this?

Thanks a lot,
Ole

Comment 1 mckay@schedmd.com 2025-11-03 15:24:05 MST

Hello Ole,

I see the behavior you're talking about and we're discussing the best way forward.

I'll let you know what's decided.

Thanks!
McKay