6.3 Macintosh OS X

This section provides information specific to the Macintosh OS X port of Condor. The Macintosh port of Condor is more accurately a port of Condor to Darwin, the BSD core of OS X. Condor uses the Carbon library only to detect keyboard activity, and it does not use Cocoa at all. Condor on the Macintosh is a relatively new port, and it is not yet well-integrated into the Macintosh environment.

Condor on the Macintosh has a few shortcomings:

• Users connected to the Macintosh via ssh are not noticed for console activity.
• The memory size of threaded programs is reported incorrectly.
• No Macintosh-based installer is provided.
• The example start up scripts do not follow Macintosh conventions.
• Kerberos is not supported.

Condor does not yet provide Universal binaries for MacOSX. There are separate down loadable packages for both PowerPC (ppc) and Intel (x86) architectures, so please ensure you are using the right Condor binaries for the platform you are trying to run on.