Setting up a gridengine install using these RPMs is a little different than using the standard Sun courtesy binaries. The default configuration setup is geared for a "reduced NFS" install with logs going into the /var/spool/gridengine directories on each host. You probably want to edit /etc/hosts to remove any mentions of the hostname on the localhost line, like the following: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost hostname - On the qmaster (and any shadow hosts) install gridengine-qmaster, then: 1) cd /usr/share/gridengine 2) ./install_qmaster [any desired options] OR edit my_configuration.conf to make any needed changes and run: ./install_qmaster -auto ./my_configuration.conf 3) Make sure the files act_qmaster, bootstrap, and settings.*sh from the directory /usr/share/gridengine/default/common/ are shared to all clients. If you don't run with a shadow master configuration you can simply copy these files to the other machines. If you change the default SGE_ROOT or SGE_CELL values, you will need to edit /etc/sysconfig/gridengine and change them there as well for the startup scripts to work. - On execution hosts install gridengine-execd, then: cd /usr/share/gridengine ./install_execd OR if you have a default install, you may be able to just do: chkconfig sge_execd on service sge_execd start - On submit hosts install gridengine