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 > > _______________________________________________ > Bioclusters maillist - Bioclusters at bioinformatics.org > https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bioclusters