DAOS-16220 test: Verify daos_agent user mode in CI

src/tests/ftest/launch.py

@@ -760,6 +760,16 @@ def main():
              "standard test yaml file.")
     args = parser.parse_args()
 
+    # Hack to test daos_agent user - start
+    args.mode = "custom_a"
+    args.archive = True
+    args.include_localhost = True
+    args.jenkinslog = True
+    args.overwrite_config = True
+    args.rename = True
+    args.sparse = True
+    # Hack to test daos_agent user - end
+
     # Override arguments via the mode
     if args.mode == "ci":
         args.archive = True

src/tests/ftest/util/apricot/apricot/test.py

@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ def setUp(self):
             self.log_step('setUp(): Starting agents')
             self.start_agents(force=force_agent_start)
 
-        self.skip_add_log_msg = self.params.get("skip_add_log_msg", "/run/*", False)
+        self.skip_add_log_msg = self.params.get("skip_add_log_msg", "/run/*", True)
 
         # If there's no server started, then there's no server log to write to.
         if (self.setup_start_servers and self.setup_start_agents and not self.skip_add_log_msg):