[Bioclusters] running sge jobs as user nobody

Anthony Carvalloza anthonyc at scripps.edu
Tue Mar 21 22:14:28 EST 2006


Hi Jinal,

If you cannot or do not wish to create another user to run the jobs, perhaps
you could try making a nobody setuid script that starts all jobs. However,
this is obviously not a best practice.

Did you compile SGE with the usermapping feature?

Thanks,
--Anthony 


On 3/21/06 9:26 PM, "Jinal Jhaveri" <jajhaveri at lbl.gov> wrote:

> Sorry for cross-posting but I saw a related talk about this issue on this list
> before so am I am posting it here. Has anybody successfully ran SGE jobs as
> user nobody? I am getting
> "can't chdir to /nonexistent: No such file or directory"error. It seems like
> qsub command is looking for the user's homedir, and nobody's home dir is
> /nonexistent and thus it generates this error.
> I am using -cwd and -o /tmp/x.out and -e /tmp/x.out options Apart from
> "running it as a regular user"  any other suggestions?
> 
> Thank you
> --Jinal
> 
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